This is an analysis of the poem The Two Nests that begins with:
The wise thrush, the wise thrush, she choseth well her tree,
Made her nest in the laurel's leafy shade....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcacaabdbddeaeaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 011011110101 1010010101 101011110001 111011111 111011111 01101111101 101001101 101011010101 1111000101 0101110101 011011110111 011010001 101011110001 10101010101 001001010101 01101111101 101001101 101011110101 10101010001 1100010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 973
- Average number of words per stanza: 182
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word she is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines swayed, by, slain, see are repeated).
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- summary of The Two Nests;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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