This is an analysis of the poem Birth that begins with:

These mountains: blackness, silence, and snow.
The red hunter climbs down from the forest; ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXbcaXbXbbbbcb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110101011 0110110010 101010011 0100101011 010110101 101111001 010111 1101010010001 0101011010001 101110010101 01 0010110111 0100100100110 011011 01110110010 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 640
  • Average number of words per stanza: 115
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; with is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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  • summary of Birth;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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