This is an analysis of the poem Thoreau In Italy that begins with:
Lingo of birds was easier than lingo of peasants-
they were elusive, though, the birds, for excellent reasons....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abX cXd ecb fgf Xcb adf adb XXh gXX fbe Xhc ciX ff ff iX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011100110010 10010101110010 11010101101010 1001100111010 1000100101100 1000111010110 1101010100110 100010011101 01010110001010 11001010011001 011011101000100 10001110101010 1011110110110 1101000110110 111111011111 0100010100101 10001110101 11001010101 110110010101 010001110101 111110100011 10110101010010 101101010111 111111010001 1101111111111 1101001100010 11110110100010 110001010110 0101100010010 0111011101010 01011100011010 01111100000101 0101111101010 1101010100100 1100100010100 110101010111 1101011111 1101111101 10001100001 0101111101 11110101010 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, he, in, his, how, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word his is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines past is repeated).
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