This is an analysis of the poem The Redwing that begins with:
I HEAR you, Brother, I hear you,
Down in the alder swamp,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdeceXdfdafXfXdcdghgh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111 100101 1011110 0100101 1001011 01000111 1101010 1100111 11010010 1111111 11101110 0100101 11110111 0101011 1101010 10010001 1111010 101111 101001110 100111 11110010 1100101 01111010 10111001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 725
- Average number of words per stanza: 137
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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