This is an analysis of the poem The Yellowhammer that begins with:
His little slender head
Shone like a yellow daffodil....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcccdedefF ghghiiijajafF ahahfffakakfF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,13,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101 11010101 10111 1010101 1000101 0100101 10010101 10110101 00101 10101 1010101 1010100101 1011011001 100101 01011001 101111 10100101 10101001 1010111 10010101 10101010 101 01010 110010101 11010101 1011011001 1011 1011111 101111 1000101 0111001 11001011 1111001 11001011 0111 10111 1100110101 111101011 1011011001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 388
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, over, comes, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words comes, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word again at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Yellowhammer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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