This is an analysis of the poem The Patrician Peacocks And The Overweening Jay that begins with:

Once a flock of stately peacocks
Promenaded on a green,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababccdb efXXggggXf ghgeXaah eieiXaai jfjfeeeX XdXdXXXd kfkfXllf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,10,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101011 1000101 10101111 1111101 10111010 11100010 10001111 1010001 11101010 1110101 10111010 1011101 10100010 10101010 10101010 10 10 11 10111010 0010101 10101010 10100110 11101111 10101110 10101010 1010101 10111010 1110111 10111010 1110101 10101100 101110100 111010100 1010101 10111111 1110101 10101011 1010101 11101010 10101010 10101010 1011101 01101010 1010101 11111010 11000101 11111010 11111000 10101000 0010001 10100010 0111101 10100110 1010101 1011000 10111010 1110100 0010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 58
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it, her are repeated).

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