This is an analysis of the poem To Hear Her Sing that begins with:
To hear her sing--to hear her sing--
It is to hear the birds of Spring... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AabX ccaA ddee bbbb aaff ggbb bbee XXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 000101001 01011101 11110100 00010101 11010110 11111100 01010101 01010001 01011101 01011101 11110101 110111001 00010101 11110101 010010111 11000101 11010101 010101001 11001111 01011101 01010101 11111101 01110011 01010101 00010101 01010001 11000101 01010111 011101101 11010101 11000101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 32
- 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; hear, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words at, to, the are repeated.
The author used the same word to at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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