This is an analysis of the poem Today We Fly that begins with:

One Sunday morning,
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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbXc bb deXbfegX hhbXdi bdijki lmmXXbXffg nopdqneo Xikgdb Xnidfnbkedb dXimXd mioppfXd kdpkX e peadXa bXp proejq ffdd E rpbjspnbjod pXpXdsmlX epgn bebsdbaffbe biol ftppee fogbXkdphX efpbl tXmkb X dobbkfb ekded lecgdkE cfmdep aq kX blk fkXj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,2,8,6,6,10,8,6,11,6,8,5,1,6,3,6,4,1,11,9,4,11,4,6,10,5,5,1,7,5,7,6,2,2,3,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110 010100010 101010010 011100010101000 101 1011101010100 10100110 11011011010 111100111 10101101000 101010100010010 11101101010 0101010111 010001010 10100110100110 11101011001 111 0010011011 0010010010 1010101 1001 10010111101 11010010 1001111 000100111 11011100 0101 101010010010 1100001 111111001001 010010100 110110100 00101001 110011001010 101110010010 1011110 111010 1000111111 10111 01101010011 111 101100101 101001011 110111001 110001 11010111101010 11100010 10111001010 10100101010 1011010101 111010101101 0101010011000 0101 1011000110 0101011 111110010 11010101 10010011001111 10110010011 001000111 0100010010 011010 110100011 1111000 100110001 0010010111001 00101101110100 1100101010 0110101001 1010100010 11000101010 1010101 01101110 1100110010 10101010101100 01101011 1000110011 10110001001 110000010011 11101010 101010101010 01001010011011 0110010101110 101011 001001000011001 1101101001 00110010 01101 1010100101 11111100001010 101010 11100100101 1010011 001011000 100010101 01001011 10010011 110010100010 1010101000101010 0110110 1001101 0111 1111 10010000100101 010000101011 11101 00101101 00101101 101010001 110100111 10101010101 101101100 10101010010 10101011 1000 100101001 111110010011100 111001010101110 011111010 111111001 1110 1000 100011010011 1011101 110110 101000101 01101100101 0110111 11010 10010 1000101110100111 1010100 010011011110 10111101010 00101010 1100101011001 0101 11101011010 101 101010110100 10100110100100100 11010 1010111001 100100110 1101 11001 01001001 1010 10111001010100 1110 0100101010 1010100010 101 0101010 11100101111 1110101 101011111001 111100010011 000101010 111101101 1011111001010 1010101010100 10010100100101 111111110 101111 10111 11011 01001010 111111 1001000110010 0101111 0100010 110001001 1100111010 11010110 010101001 1111001011 1100010011 01001101110111 1110101011 11011001010 0100010101 1001010111010 10010010 01110 11111011 0111 111010011 10010010101110 010110001 10001010001 1100100011 10100101 10001010101010 11 10010011 111111010 0101100100101 1010 1111 10111110010 101 0101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 37
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 203
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; via, its, of, from, for, not, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, for, a, better are repeated.

    The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines prato, sky are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase miraculous connects the lines.

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  • summary of Today We Fly;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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