This is an analysis of the poem The Plaint Of The Camel that begins with:
Canary-Birds feed on sugar and seed,
Parrots have crackers to crunch:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdde XcXccce acacffe XgXgcce ahXhfXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101111011 1011001 111010111010 11011111 1110010 011010 101111 1101101001 1011011 10110010010 11011001 111010 011010 101111 1101101001 1101011 10110010110 11101011 1010110 010010 101111 111011001 11001011 011110011010 1101001 1110101 101100 101111 11011101001 11011011 111010110010 11011001 1010110 110110 101111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 218
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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 and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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