This is an analysis of the poem The 90th Year that begins with:
High in the jacaranda shines the gilded thread
of a small bird's curlicue of song-too high...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcadXX beadXaf gXgeahXgiX XXfdXiiXcfiXXaihhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,10,18,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100100010101 0011100111 100111 11 101110 1111010 1110 011 11101 0101011111001 111001 10100110000 01101 1001110011 0110100 010110001 1010010000 010101001 01011010 1001001110 01111000110 11010 11010011 11110011000 11101010 010011010011 100001010 11011101010 1010110010110 10011110111 100101101 110110 1101010001 10110011 110111 1111 001010000101 1111011101 110110010101 1010 1111011101001010 01010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 389
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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 is repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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