This is an analysis of the poem Bell Birds that begins with:
By channels of coolness the echoes are calling,
And down the dim gorges I hear the creek falling;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbbbaa ccddeeXf bXffggaa bbXXeehh ggffXbbbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010010110 110110110110 010010111010 10110011010 110010110110 10011010010 110110110110 010011110110 010111010011 110010110011 111111010110 110110010010 111010110010 111110110110 110010110100 1011010011010 010010011010 10110111000 10110010010 110111010110 10011010110 10111110110 10011011110 010011110010 101101001010 1010011010110 1100010110010 1010010010010 10010110110 0110110011010 011010110110 111010110010 10111010011 10011010011 101101010010 10011011010 11010011010 11011011010 11110010110 010110011010 10010010110 010011010010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 414
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, loiters are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines time is repeated).
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