This is an analysis of the poem The Blackbirds Are Rough Today that begins with:
lonely as a dry and used orchard
spread over the earth...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXb cb ded fX gdhiejaaih hfhh jakikeegXjjlhhmXggX clXahlmelXhXkedjh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,3,2,10,4,19,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011110 11001 111010 11111110 101010 10111 110101 1110011 0100010111 10 0101101 1 1011 01101 1 111 0101011 101 1001 1010011 11010 11 010111 111110 11111 0111 1010 1 1011110 1 11 1 11001001 1010 11110 111010 11111 11010 111101110 1001 111 111110111 10 1110111000 1010 00101110 10101111101 1010 0101011101010 01110 1 0111101 10 010 10010 101111101 1 11 1
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 59
- 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; you, who, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
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