This is an analysis of the poem The Sparrow that begins with:
O Lord, I cannot but believe
The birds do sing thy praises then, when they sing to one another,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX bcbc bdbd bXbX cece fgfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 0111110111101010 111101111010101 1101010110100100 01110111 111011011111010 111101010010101 1101110101011110 11110101 0010101000111010 11111101111100 010101011001010 11111101 110101011110110 111111010011001 010111011101100 11110111 01011101001001010 111101010101001 111100011101110 10110111 110111110101010 010101011101001 11001010110101010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 224
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, i, it are repeated.
The author used the same words i, but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase it connects the lines.
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- summary of The Sparrow;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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