This is an analysis of the poem The Bird's Complaint that begins with:
I am constantly reminded of the bygone times
Those garden's springs, those chorus of chimes...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa XX Xa bb cc bb dd cX Xe Xe ff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1110001000111 1100111001 110100111 11111111110 11101011 00111011 11001011001 11010001101 111111010111 10101110001111 1010011101110111 101010011001011 011010101110 1101000111110 10111011101 111110010011 110100010001001101 11010011101001 1100010001011010 01001001101 1011011111 0101001111101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 95
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; of, my, i, in, this, heart are repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines form, now, am, free are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word heart at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Bird's Complaint;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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