This is an analysis of the poem Bluebird that begins with:
there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AABXcdAAefghagi AABchjXhkjAAagjicXfebcfaXadkadd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,31,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110111 1011 101111 111010110 0110001 1 10110111 1011 1111011101 1011 10110110 101001 1011 1 01 10110111 1011 101111 11 1111101 11 110110 1 11011110 10 10110111 1011 10110110111 1101 1101001 1111111 110 1 11111 1110010 01110111 1 1110101 1 01 101 101010 101 1111 11 1
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 463
- Average number of words per stanza: 96
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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 words and, weep are repeated.
The author used the same word there's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines out is repeated).
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