This is an analysis of the poem Delia. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Fifth) that begins with:
Sweet as the tender fragrance that survives,
When martyred flowers breathe out their little lives,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101010101 11010111101 1101110111 1100010101 01010101001 1101110001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 267
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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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- summary of Delia. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Fifth);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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