This is an analysis of the poem Oliver Basselin. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First) that begins with:
In the Valley of the Vire
Still is seen an ancient mill,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaccX dedeffd cbcbggc cccXaAc hihijjh chchkkc chchffX ahahlla mfmfffm ififggi bhbhaAX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010001 1011101 0010111 1010101 101 1101 100100110 1010101 1010101 1010101 1110111 0101 1101 11010111 1010111 1110111 00100111 1010101 001 1101 1010101 0110101 0010111 1010101 1010100 111 1101 0010001 1010001 1010111 1010001 1010101 1010 01010 1110001 1010101 0110111 1111001 1110011 101 0011 11100001 0011101 10010101 10101001 1010101 0101 1011 1010100 00101001 1111101 1110111 1010111 111 0101 1110111 0010101 1010101 1010101 1010111 101 1101 1000111 1110101 11101110 1010111 10101010 101 0101 01100101 10101001 0011101 1010111 10111001 101 1101 0010001
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 77
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words stare, gone are repeated.
The author used the same word in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Oliver Basselin. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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