This is an analysis of the poem The Soldier Birds that begins with:
I mind the river from Mount Frome
To Ballanshantie’s Bridge,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcdedfgXghddd Xididgjg kdldafkf hXdXmndn jekedede lefebefe flaleeie ddedeele FbmbFjdj lnfnikdk cecefdfdXdlgldndn
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010011 010001 0111100 111101 01000101 010111 01011101 0100101 11010101 011101 01010101 010101 01111101 011101 010010101 110101 11011101 011101 01011101 010101 10110101 110101 11011111 110111 11010111 010101 01010100 110111 11000101 110101 11010001 010011 11011111 010111 11011111 111101 11000101 110101 1101100 110111 11111101 011101 11011111 110101 01010101 010111 11010111 111101 01010110 011101 01010101 011111 0100101 100111 01000101 011111 01001101 110101 01110101 010101 11010101 011101 01100101 110101 11010101 011011 01110111 11111 011101011 0111011 11010111 111111 01010101 100101 11011101 111001 01010101 010101 11110111 100101 11011111 101101 1101101 110101 11010111 010111 11001101 111101 11011101 111111 01000111 110001 01111100 110111 01010101 110110 0111111 111111 11010101 010111 1101011 11111 101011101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 270
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 104
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; and, bread, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, that, and are repeated.
The author used the same words i, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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