This is an analysis of the poem Song. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Fifth) that begins with:
Stay, stay at home, my heart, and rest;
Home-keeping hearts are happiest,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbA aaaaA aaccA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 11111111 11011100 111101111 110101101 011101 10111101 11011101 11101101101 1010010001 011101 11111111 01010001 1011101111 010100001 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word best at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Song. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Fifth);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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