This is an analysis of the poem Care Of Birds For Their Young that begins with:

As thus the patient dam assiduous sits,
Not to be tempted from her tender task,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcdccXXeXbdfghgefgdXcXfXidaebXidcffabdh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 41,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010101 1001000101 1111011101 10110010101 0100010101 11101011101 01001011101 0101011101 01010110101 0101010101 1101000011 1101011101 0101000101 0101011101 1101000101 1011010111 0100110001 0101010011 1100010001 01011010101 1101110101 1101010101 0111010101 0101110101 1111011101 1111011101 1101110101 101100001010 1101000101 1001010101 1111110101 01010011101 1101100101 00101110101 01001011101 0101110101 0101010101 0110010111 100111100101 0111010101 0101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1770
  • Average number of words per stanza: 298
  • Amount of lines: 41
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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