This is an analysis of the poem The Fury Of Beautiful Bones that begins with:

Sing me a thrush, bone.
Sing me a nest of cup and pestle. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbXcddeefafXXcXgagXXgXdggbXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011 11010111 11010111110 1101101011111 111111 11011010110 10010010101 11010110101 111011101 1001011101110 11110011111010 111100011 011100010101 101111000011 11010111110 0110111010101 10101011011 110111101001 100110100010 100111010101 101101111 1101010111 10110001101 11110101111 101110111 11011011 11001010 110110100100 110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1228
  • Average number of words per stanza: 232
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; sing, me, as, of, round are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words sing, me are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines your is repeated).

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  • summary of The Fury Of Beautiful Bones;
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