This is an analysis of the poem Soft, Low And Sweet that begins with:

Soft, low and sweet, the blackbird wakes the day,
And clearer pipes, as rosier grows the gray ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbX abXC abbaXC
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 1111010101 11011100101 1011110011 1111110101 010111100 10011001101 1001011101 01010111010010 1111 01001011101 1101110101 1101010101 0101011101 11011100110 1111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 258
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (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; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word from is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word sweet at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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