This is an analysis of the poem Armenian Folk-Song--The Stork that begins with:
Welcome, O truant stork!
And where have you been so long?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaaa Xbcb dece beXe dfef XbXbXebab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101 1111011 111111001 1101101 010111 110110 111111101 011111 1100101 0101101 10100111001 1001001 111101 111111 1010010111 1011111 101011 1101111 101110101 1110101 10111111 1100101 10101001101 01101001 101101 1111110 11111001001 10100101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; came, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, came are repeated.
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