This is an analysis of the poem A Singing Bird In The City that begins with:

Golden-throated, hath God sent thee for our comfort in the city?
Sweet, sweet! singing, singing all the day....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababacacXdedededfbgb eXeghihijkjkebebeiei hlhlhihifbfbedededXdebeb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,20,24,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010111111100010 111010101 111010110110010 11101010001 11010111110 1111010101 11011101010 10010011101 101010101100 00101010001 10101000111110 100110101 1110101000110010 1000101110111 11000100111110 010110011101 11111101111010 110111000010101 011010111111011 1111011110101 110101000101110 0110011010111 101001111101110 1010101110101 110010011111110 001010111110101 11010100100010 0101010110111 11010100100010 010101010010101 11110100101010 01010001111101 11101011101110 0101110111101 1101011111010 1101010111 11010101101010 1100010100101 10010110101110 1100010001 10110100111110 101110001010101 10110101101110 11011100010011 101111011010 010101110101 0101011111010 11111111010101 11010101101010 0010010110001 11111011101010 1001001110110 1011101011010 100111110101 0011010100110 1101111011 1111111100110 111101110101 1101010101110 1101010011 11010001111110 11110011111 11010100111110 11101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1165
  • Average number of words per stanza: 213
  • Amount of lines: 64
  • Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and, no, of, that, her, how, singing are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there, many, how are repeated.

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  • summary of A Singing Bird In The City;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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