This is an analysis of the poem In Reference To Her Children that begins with:
I had eight birds hatched in one nest,
Four cocks there were, and hens the rest.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaaddeeaaddffggaahhffhhaaiiggjjaaaaffkkbbccllddaadmmeeaaaannddcchhaaaaccnoaaiiccnoiipphh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 93,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111011 11101101 11010111 11111011 11011111 10011101 10011101 01011111 11011101 11011111 111111110 111101010 11010101 10011101 10111101 11011101 11011101 1101011 010011111 01010101 11010101 11111101 10011011 11010101 11010101 11110100 10001001 0101111 01011001 11110101 10111011 110001101 11110111 01011101 11010101 11011111 11011011 01111101 11111111 10011111 01111111 11011111 10111111 10011101 11011101 111000101 11111111 100111011 11010111 01011101 11111101 11110101 11111111 11111101 11111111 10111111 10111111 111111110 111111010 01111101 01011100 11011101 11001111 10110111 11011111 11110111 11110111 01011111 11110111 11110111 11011101 11101101 11111101 10011111 00010011 11110011 11010011 11011111 101100100 11011011 01111111 01010101 11011111 10110111 11111101 11111111 11111100 11101111 11111111 11011111 11111101 11111101 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3380
- Average number of words per stanza: 653
- Amount of lines: 93
- 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; i, to, my, or, be, and, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, my, and are repeated.
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