This is an analysis of the poem I Heard A Bird At Dawn that begins with:

I heard a bird at dawn
Singing sweetly on a tree, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abABcB cBABcbXcbabcb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111 1010101 1011101 1011101 11101001 1110101 1101001 1110101 1011101 1011101 1110101 1110011 1110101 1010011 01010101 1010101 11101001 1110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; on, to are repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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