This is an analysis of the poem Christmas Sparrow that begins with:
The first thing I heard this morning
was a soft, insistent rustle,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbc adec cXfcgh Xgfh cciXX XXccXbgi cdeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,4,5,8,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111010 10101010 0101001 0111011 011100 00100110 1001011 001000100000101 01001001 10101 1110111001 100011 10100101 11001001101 1101110100 001101100001 11001 0110000101 11101 011001000100 101001010 0010010 1101010011010 1101001 1110110 011101011 0101001111 10011011 10001010 0110101101 010101001010101 011011111101 100011010 10001011 01110010101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Christmas Sparrow;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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