Poem Analysis of In The Light Of Birds by Dilip Chitre for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem In The Light Of Birds that begins with:

In the light of birds the lunatic wakes from uncountable sleeps
His burning electric wires begin to glow...

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Rhyme scheme: abca bXXX dXdc XX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,2,
Closest metre: iambic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
Metre: 001010101101001 010010100101 110100100111 0100101001001010 010010101011 0100100100001010 101101010010010 0010111011001 0101110110101 1011010111 110100101010 01011010111 01011001011100 1011110101
Amount of stanzas: 4
Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
Average number of words per stanza: 30
Amount of lines: 14
Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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In The Light Of Birds by Dilip Chitre: poem analysis

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