This is an analysis of the poem An Old Maid's Lament that begins with:
1.
Every wild she- bird has nest and mate in the warm April weather,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X ababb X XcXcc X dcdcc X aeaee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 10011111110011010 101010111111111 000101010111111010 101010111110101 111000110110111 1 1011111110101010 110110101110101 00100101101101000 001011100110101 001000101110111 1 1111101011101010 111010101111101 11111000101110 111111101000101 111011111010101 1 1110111111101110 101001110110011 1010111111111110 111110101011101 101010100011101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for, of, my, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, of, still, o are repeated.
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