This is an analysis of the poem The Joy Of Earth that begins with:
OH, the sudden wings arising from the ploughed fields brown
Showered aloft in spray of song the wild-bird twitter floats ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101000111 10010101011101 1001101111101 10111010101 101010100101010 1000101010101 10111110101010 10101010111 1011100010101 1011101110001 00111010001011 11111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 232
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Joy Of Earth;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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