This is an analysis of the poem Free Fantasia On Japanese Themes that begins with:

All the afternoon there has been a chirping of birds,
And the sun lies warm and still on the western sides of swollen branches.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabXbcd eefg aXahi facfXjd XhfaXabiakX kiea egaXbcbaXcXdjXigac
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,4,5,7,11,4,18,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010111001001 10111111010101010 1011 1001011010010111 1010001110 1010000010 010111 1101 11101101 10011 100010 1101001010 0101100 101100 01010 10100 11101010 10010101011111 01001101 11011010101 101101011 100110101010 001011 1101010100 01010101 111101000010 0101110 10110110 11011001 110111 11101010 1110101 1101 1110100 0111101011 010110 01111010101 01010111 11100101 1010001010010 10111101010 101 0101 101010 10010 11001100101 111010110 11010101 01010110 11101110001 11001001010100010 11101 1010110 0110101101010010 1011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 237
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 55
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; of, upon, and are repeated.

    The author used the same word i 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 alert is repeated).

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