This is an analysis of the poem Songs Of The Voices Of Birds: A Raven In A White Chine that begins with:
I saw when I looked up, on either hand,
A pale high chalk-cliff, reared aloft in white;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eaea fcfc gbgb caca dbdb eaea dhdh bibi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111111101 0111110101 01001110101 0101110101 0101010101 1001010101 0101111101 1011010101 1111111101 0101010111 1111111111 1111010111 1111001101 1111110111 1100010111 1111010101 1101010111 1111011101 1111001101 01110101001 1111000101 0101011101 1101111111 0111010101 1111010011 111001111 0011111101 1101111101 1111010001 1011011101 11111100101 1101110001 1111010111 11110101001 1111101111 1011001101 1011010111 1111111101 1111111011 1111001111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy, cry are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
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