This is an analysis of the poem The Herons Of Elmwood. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Fifth) that begins with:
Warm and still is the summer night,
As here by the river's brink I wander;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd dede fgfg ahah hehe Xbeb agag ifif
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100101 1110101110 110110111 01001101110 10110101 1011101010 10100101011 100101001110 1011011011 011001001110 110100110 10111001110 1101001001 101011011110 11001001101 110010011110 100110101 01110111011 0101001001 101001011101 0011101101 00111011010 10100101101 001001010010 110100100 10100001110 10011111 1011110110110 1011011101 10100101110 111100101 1110101010 1100101101 11101101010 010100101 00101001010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, that, and, him, to are repeated.
The author used the same word sing at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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