This is an analysis of the poem Hearing The Early Oriole that begins with:

When the sun rose I was still lying in bed;
An early oriole sang on the roof of my house....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbXbXXabbaXaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 10111111001 1101011101011 1010110010111 1010011011001 1010011110101 10011101011 10100111111001 10110100111 101110101101 0010100111 011101011 101001001001 0111011111011 0111101001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 692
  • Average number of words per stanza: 138
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, i, in are repeated.

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