This is an analysis of the poem The Magpie's Nest, Or A Lesson Of Docility that begins with:
A FABLE
When the arts in their infancy were,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a XXbc dede aaaX fbfb dgdX cccc fhXh iXiX XcXX ifiX hXhX dddd cfcf dfdX gbgb Xfhfh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 010 101011000 001001110 011101011 101111101 011001101 1110110011 111001011 011011011 101101001 101001101 011011000 001101001 001011111 111001111 01011101 01101111 101111101 001101110 111111101 011011010 0011110011 101011101 11101001 01001101 101101101 1011001111 111111011 1010101111 11010011 11111111 101111111 001111111 111001010 111001111 111001101 11101101 11111011 001001001 111101001 111011101 1010100011 010010010 111111011 00100011110 11011001 0011001001 101101111 111101001 101111001 101111111 111001101 1010110001 101011011 1111011101 111011011 111101001 101001001 101001011 11111001 001001101 101001111 01011001 11110100 01011101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; to, be, in are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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