This is an analysis of the poem The Sermon Of St. Francis. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Fourth) that begins with:
Up soared the lark into the air,
A shaft of song, a wingéd prayer,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb XXcc ddee eeff ggff ggbb ffaX ggddXeeaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010001 0101011 10010101 010101001 11010101 11000100 010100010 010101010 01010101 01111101 01111101 11011101 11011101 11011111 11010101 11011101 11011101 01000101 11111100 111101011 11011101 01010011 11011101 11011101 11011101 11010111 11011101 111011010 01001111 01010101 11010101 11101101 11100101 01001101 11011011 01000111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 36
- 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; be, mine, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, not, and are repeated.
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- summary of The Sermon Of St. Francis. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Fourth);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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