This is an analysis of the poem The Screech-Owl that begins with:
Hearing the strange night-piercing sound
Of woe that strove to sing,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccdedeaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011101 011101 11010111 011101 01011011 110111 11011001 010101 01011101 111100 11111111 110001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 388
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Screech-Owl;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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