This is an analysis of the poem Thrush that begins with:
Ephemeral issue of a vicious daemon and a harsh fate,
why do you force me to speak of things that it would be better for you not to know....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab c d d efegae hXaEceiedXidjkf EXhieiicleemdXcneege lo X X oakfhdXjmacaeepX X XekebkgjaX X aeaebBjjicbabqrmBiikockckahmjlasX kX pjX hsXt t jjiXfXkk uuhheegg eeddmdaa jjkXiiipX X XoX jebXcabchefpj jmjhnpadcbbgisX ii a dpeebcXXiecXacepjipiXfafXdmXo he
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,1,1,6,15,20,2,1,1,16,1,10,1,33,2,3,4,1,8,8,8,9,1,3,13,15,2,1,29,30,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 0100100010101011 11111010110101011101 100010 1 01101 0101111010101 10001000101011 010101010101 011101010 10011101010 01101001110010 1101010100101 101010 01010001001 11110110 11111110101 111110 110100010001 101010101101 1001 101011011 1111110110 011101011101 010111011 1101101110101 11001 11110110 1010111110 0111101 01 011010101 0010101110011 10010101010 1110101001111 11 011110101010 1011100010 111111110 110101001111101 11010110100110 0100101 101010110100 01011110 001010111 1010110 1010011001 1011110100111 01 1 100100 11110110101 011100101 10011101001 1101010010111 110111101 1110111 1101000101000 11111110101 11110100 01110101101 1100010110101 101010011 01001111 001011011 10101011010 0111111 110111001 1011110011000 01111101 101 11011 10101001001 101101 0101101010 11011101101 11101100101 11011 01110010 1101111110 1101101 011001010111 101 11 011 001101111 0101111001101101 11101011 00100011101 001011011 01011001 11001111 110011001101 100001010101 110100 011 0101011010110 010 1111011011 11010011101 1100101100010101 1010101 1110100010010 0011 1011111 0101101010 1110010100 1110101010101010 0010001001 1101111001 111001011 11100100 111100010 01 100111110 10110111100 1 1011101011 0110110101 11110101101 1011100100101 0101 111101 1111001 0101011 0101100 1101011 11011110 1101101 101100 1000101 010101 10101101 1111011 10101111 101101001 1101101 10101 10100101 1101001 11101111 11111001 1100110010 10001001 1101111 100101 1001011 01001001 0100101 10001101110 11001001 0101001 110 01010010 01 100 1 11 011 1111110 1111111 010010110010001 10100101 1101 1111010110011 011011001 0111101101 1011110110101 100 10100011001 110111110 010001011101 1100001101010 101110 01000101001011 111111010101 010101110010100 10 1101001111110 10010000101 11100 1010110110111 1100111111 1000110100010010 1 1011 11111011 10001111101 100111111 01 10111 01010111010 10011111001010 110101001 1111110100101 00100010101 110100 01110110011011 1100101011001 10101111111 11101111010 01010 111010111010 0010100011010010 11101001000111 1010010110 11101101 0110101 010010010 1100010101 101110011 1110101 1010100011 0010101101 101010101 1111110001 1011101010 01100 010101011 111011 100110111 1110 011011 11101001001 110001 01111010011000 111011 01010101100100 0100010110101 1100100111 0110010111010 011 101110011 11 010010011 0100111 11010001101 10010100001010 010110101 001 11110 00110101010 100101110010 111 0101101010101 1101001 010111010111 11010011 0100101001010110
- Amount of stanzas: 31
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 294
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 251
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; to, and, you, at, ', eyes, sing, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, sometimes, i, with, for, countries, you are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ', radio, pine are repeated).
The poet repeated the same words ', radio at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase ' connects the lines.
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