This is an analysis of the poem The Flight Of The Crows that begins with:
The autumn afternoon is dying o'er
The quiet western valley where I lie ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabaa cdcdd efeff agagg gfgff bcbcc hihiiXhbhbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01010101010 0101010111 0101010101 1101110111 10011101111101 0111010001 1101010111 110010101 1101011101 10010101110101 0101010101 111010101 1101010101 1101111101 01010101010101 1101011101 11110011001 0101011101 0101110101 11010101010101 10111111001 1101111111 0111010111 1100010101 11011111010101 0100110001 1001010111 0101110111 1101011101 01010111010101 1111010001 1111110111 1111111101 0101011111 01011101010101 1111110101 01010101001 1111010101 1101000111 11010101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, where, strange, with, would are repeated.
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- summary of The Flight Of The Crows;
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- idea of the verse;
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