This is an analysis of the poem Joy that begins with:
My heart is like a little bird
That sits and sings for very gladness.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX bcbc dXdX eceX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 111111010 10010101 110101010 01010101 110111010 11011111 110101010 11010011 110101110 111110011 110111011 111011101 111101110 11010101 110110010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; my, o are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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- summary of Joy;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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