This is an analysis of the poem There Sang A Bird that begins with:
Behind my father's house there sang a bird,
In the forest, on the lime,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABBcddcefef AgegaegX aXddchch Abiiaccbjj Baaacceee AddcccccXddgg BAXfibiffeBB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,8,8,10,9,13,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111011101 0010101 0101 0101010111 0011 010111010101 0111 01010101001 0101011111 10010100101 011001 0111011101 1111 1100111001 1101011101 0100010101 0011010011 111101 0011100 011101101001 0110011100 1101101101 0111010111 010010101 0101000110 0101000101 1100011100 0111011101 0101110101 1001001100 0111110101 1111010111 1101011101 0101010101 1101010101 1001111111 10010101 0111010101 0111010101 1101011111 0110110011 11110101111 111101000101 1111010001 10010001011 11001011 0111011101 101110110101 110101110101 11001011111 1111011101101 01010111011 1001100110010 1010000101 11000100 01011111 1011011001 11110101 0101 0111010101 0111011101 01001110 101101 111111 1111110101 11110100001 1011111101 1111110001 1011010110 0010101 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 396
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 71
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, voice, her, my, in, joy, how are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, the, and, ladies, joy, behind are repeated.
The author used the same word behind at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of There Sang A Bird;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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