This is an analysis of the poem I Whispered To The Bobolink that begins with:
I WHISPERED to the bobolink:
'Sweet singer of the field,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabX cX dXeX dX ebdX cX XcaX XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,4,2,4,2,4,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000100 110001 11010101 0101010 11010111 11110100 11010101 010101 110111101 011101 10110101 11111101 11010111 110101 11111101 010111 01010101 11010111 10111101 110111 11010001 1100011 10110101 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 96
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; ', i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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