This is an analysis of the poem A Hermit Thrush that begins with:
Nothing's certain. Crossing, on this longest day,
the low-tide-uncovered isthmus, scrambling up ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbb cdeX Xfgh adcX fXih jhka Xdka Xcag XbXj bXlh idcl mdgX eXid hXlg cmfc dfgc fekb hXXlXidbf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010101 011010101001 01101111 0001110 0100111101 0101000001111 11101100 10001011 0100100011100 11011101010 1010101010 11111 010101011 01111011 110101010 10101 11110101010 110101010101 111101 1101 011101010101110 101010100011 1011110100 100101 00101101010 110101110111 110111110 10110101 0101010101 011101000100 010111111 1011100 11101100 001010010110 0111010110100 00110 1110111111 1110001111 110111 111011 10011010011 100011001111 01111010 110101 001010011000 10101110 111001110 111010 101001000010 1110010010 10100011 100110 111100010011 010111000110 00101110 100110 10010101011 1000111101 010011011111 0111111 11010111101 0100110110 010111010 011101 010111110 1110101010 1010101010 100001 010100110111 0101110101 010100110000 110101 100010101010010 111011000100 1100110 11001001
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 76
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- 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; such, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, there's are repeated.
The author used the same words the, to, that at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of A Hermit Thrush;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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