This is an analysis of the poem The Happy Bird’s Nest that begins with:
When on my cottage falls the placid shower,
When ev'ning calls the labourer home to rest, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb Xbcb cbcbXbbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11110101010 11010100101 11011001010 1101010101 11011110001 1101010101 0101010111 1101010101 11001010110 0111010101 1101010101 11010100101 1101010101 1111000101 1001011101 1101010101 11110010101 11011010101 1111110101 1111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; when, her, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word nest at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Happy Bird’s Nest;
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