This is an analysis of the poem The Birds Of Cirencester that begins with:
Did I ever tell you, my dears, the way
That the birds of Cisseter--'Cisseter!' eh?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbacXbXa ddeeXcffggffXXaa hhhiiiee aaahhhXf jjaabXeX hXXhhhff Xekkhhh gggiihhh eegggll mmggffaabX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,16,8,8,8,8,7,8,7,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0110111101 10101001001 110101101 010110 111010 010010111 1100101 1111110 1100100 1101100 00101001001 010100101 101011011001 011011101 101011001011 01010011100 1011010111 1010100101 100100111011 1101011101 110101101 100111001 100100101 0110111010 110111111 1111000111 100011111001 011101101 01001001001 110100101 110001111 11110101 1100101111 11001111011 0111100101 10100111101 01011001001 110010111 1010110101 1110100101 10100110111 11011001110 111011001110 1110110101 11110101 111011111 0101101101 1000111010 0100101000 10101101010 11001011101 110110101 101011101 101000111 1010111111 1010111101 1010100101 1010110101 011110101 1010111101 0010100101 11101111 11001101101 10101101111 01011101011 0110101010111 11101111011 001011001111 001001111001 11111011101 111111001101 101011111011 001101101011 01100011011 1101111011 0111110011101 110110010101 111001011101 101011001111 10110101011 001011001011 111101001111 01101011011 110010110010 1010011110110 10110101011 11101111101 101111111001 11001111001 1010110010110 0011010111000
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 403
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 91
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; ', of, and, to, on are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, to are repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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