This is an analysis of the poem Birds In Alarm that begins with:
The firetail tells the boys when nests are nigh
And tweets and flies from every passer-bye.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaa ccbbddaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 01001011111 11110100101 0100010101 1101000101 01011101001 11111101001 0100110101 1101010101 0101010111 1101010111 1101011101 1101011101 1111110111 1101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 306
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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, her are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word away at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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