This is an analysis of the poem Of Being Is A Bird that begins with:
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Of Being is a Bird... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: X XXaX XXXX XXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 010001 010001 11011101 0100100000 010010010 110001 010000000100 1100010 0101010 0100110 1001010100 1100000
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 94
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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