This is an analysis of the poem The Life of a Bird that begins with:
Thou art clothed on with plumes, as with leaves,
Frond-like, and lighter than air;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gcgc hchc XhXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 111101101 1111011 11011001 11011101 1111101 11101101 11011001 01001011 110001010 1111101 110011010 1001111 0001111 11001011 11001111 11110101 1001111 11111011 01011101 0011011 11011110 11001001 1110001 01001101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; thou, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word thou is repeated.
The author used the same word thou at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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