This is an analysis of the poem Over The Hills And Far Away that begins with:
A LITTLE bird flew my window by,
'Twixt the level street and the level sky, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaX ccddaX ddddaX eeffaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010111101 1010110101 01010101 011110101 111010101 110011110 010110111 001010111 011100101 1011100101 1010110111 110011110 010110111 1110111111 111011111 011011101 101010101 010011110 111010101 100101101 110111111 001011111 111011111 10011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 228
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- 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; level, i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word a 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 bound is repeated).
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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