This is an analysis of the poem The White Bird that begins with:

Man of the flame-eyes
And mouth with the bitter twist of in-grown laughter,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXaaXXaXdaXecX addaXdaaebXXabeaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,17,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10011 110010100110 1101111010 00100010000101 100011 11110 101001010 1110010001101 101100101 10011100101001 1010001110110010 001110101010110 11110 1111010001 0011101 11001000 110010010 1100100101001 1110111 111110011 1111011000 0010101 1111001011 10011001 110001 101101011010 101101 11010100101 11010 010001 1111001011010 100010011
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 418
  • Average number of words per stanza: 71
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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  • summary of The White Bird;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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