This is an analysis of the poem The Green Thicket that begins with:
All in a green thicket I heard a bird sing,
And blithe though his song was it made the tears spring,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabB ccbb aadd BbddXaabB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10011011011 111011010101 01011111101 10011011001 10011001001 110001111101 11011011011 10011001011 100110110001 11011011101 11011011001 101110110101 10011011001 011011001101 011011001111 101101011001 100110110001 101011111011 11011011101 10011011001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, that, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words all, that, i, it are repeated.
The author used the same word all at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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