This is an analysis of the poem Sympathy that begins with:
I know what the caged bird feels, alas!
When the sun is bright on the upland slopes; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaXbb cbccbcc deddebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011101 1010110101 1011110101 1010110101 10111101110 1010100101 1110111 111011101 1010110101 1111100111 1111010101 1011100111 1110100101 1111101 111011111 1010110101 1110111101 0010100111 10111100111 10111001011 1110111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 306
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; bird, his, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, i, and, but are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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