This is an analysis of the poem Let Me Be To Thee As The Circling Bird that begins with:
Let me be to Thee as the circling bird,
Or bat with tender and air-crisping wings... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cdcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11001101001 1101011101 1101100101 01010100101 11111000101 1011000111 1100110011 1110001101 00101010101 1111011101 1101011101 1101011100 111010001111 1111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 306
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.
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