This is an analysis of the poem A Souless Singer that begins with:
Hail! throstle, by thy ringing voice descried,
Not by the wanderings of the tuneless wing!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XababX cdcdcd ececec bcbcbc cccccc fgXgfg hihihi ajajaj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110110 110100001001 110111101 1011011111 1010111 001 1101110101 0101110001 1111010101 0101110101 1011101 101 00010111001 11010010101 1001001111 1111011101 1011101 101 0101010101 1011000101 1011001001 1001000101 0011111 101 1101111101 0100000111 1101010101 1111001111 1011101 101 1011010001 1101000101 1011111100 1011001101 0010101 101 10010111101 1001110101 1111010101 1011110001 1110111 011 1100101001 1111000101 0111100101 1100011101 1010101 001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; it, and, to are repeated.
The author used the same word thou at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of A Souless Singer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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