This is an analysis of the poem Cuckoo Song that begins with:
SUMER is icumen in,
Lhude sing cuccu! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaX XXXX XaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001000 1110 1011101 11011 110 110101 11011 1010110 1110 1010110110 111101 1101110 1101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; cuccu, sing are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word sing is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines cuccu is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word cuccu at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase cuccu connects the lines.
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