This is an analysis of the poem The Bottle And The Bird that begins with:
Once on a time a friend of mine prevailed on me to go
To see the dazzling splendors of a sinful ballet show,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcX ddeefX ggbXcc ffccee aacccc ggeegg ffhheeXffeecc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11010101011101 010100100010011 11011100010001 110100011110001 1101001111101 111111010111 11111011110101 010101100010101 100100100110101 01010101110101 1010101010100101 11010101111110 101010111010111 10011010110101 11010111110111 110001011011100 01110101010101 1101010011111 11011111110111 11010100010001 110100101011101 011101010110001 11010101011101 10011100011101 01010111110101 11111101111101 01000100110111 10010100110111 11001100011101 10111010111 01110101011101 01001011010111 11010001110101 101010111010101 101010111110101 11010100010101 11110101100011 1100010111001001 11111101111111 100010101110101 11111101100111 11110111111101 11011101110111 110011011100101 11100101010101 11010011100101101 11010100010101 00111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 346
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, how, that, what, you, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Bottle And The Bird;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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