This is an analysis of the poem The Bird And The Hour that begins with:

The sun looks over a little hill
And floods the valley with gold-... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaXcaacdbdbdaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011100101 1101001 01001 101010111 01001100 0101011 1101101011 00101 10100001 110101 100101 1000101 0010110101001 110101 111100 0101010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 489
  • Average number of words per stanza: 91
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • 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; and is repeated.

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

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