This is an analysis of the poem Red Robin that begins with:
Hi, it's a funny world! This mornin' when I woke
I saw red robin on the fence, an' heard the words he spoke.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabX cXbX ddbb bbbX eeee ffdd aabb ccgg hhdd iijj ffcc hhjj hhhg eedd kkgg bXff llcX fXXX bbbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 100101010111 11110101110111 11010101101001 100101110011 01110101011101 111101011101000 01000101111011 100101110011 11111111100101 111000101011101 11001111011111 11010001111001 111000101111101 101001100011111 11110101111001 100101110011 101010101011101 111100101110111 11110101110101 001010100011001 1110111001110001 101010001110101 11111111110101 111010100110001 11010101110101 11111101111101 11111101011101 111110101111001 11011111111001 11010100110011 11111100110111 11010101010111 01010111111101 11111100010001 111010101010001 101110100110001 11111101110001 111011101001101 11111101110101 101100101011101 01010101111101 110011110110111 01011111011101 01010111110111 11001001111001 101000101010101 01111100110001 01010111111101 11111101010001 101000101110111 111011101111001 111010100111101 10010101110001 101010100010001 10110100100101 111010101110111 11110101010111 01111100100101 111110101110101 11010101110101 11011101001110 110101010111010 11110111110101 111000101010111 11111111010011 11010111111111 11010111010101 11100101110110 1110001001011101 110101010111110 11010111111101 11111101110101 11101101010101 11110101111001 11010111111111 100101110011
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 226
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 77
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, so, i, this, an', she, to, my, how are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, an' are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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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- summary of Red Robin;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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