This is an analysis of the poem The Ambition Bird that begins with:
So it has come to this
insomnia at 3:15 A.M., ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXb cdX deX fca abb ghi hX Xf Xc hi bb jX gX gi hjeXiab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101100 0100111 0110010 101100 0111101010 10101010 010011101 111010 11110 1110101 1111110 10010011 001101001 11011 110 1111 10011 110101 011001 001111001 11010101 110101 11010001010101 111101010 11010101 11100111 1101111 1110110010001010 110011101 11101010 110110110 10110011110 11011001 111011010 1111 11100 00101110 111011 101101001 1010010101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 76
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; my, and, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.
The author used the same word he 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 box is repeated).
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