This is an analysis of the poem What The Birds Said that begins with:
The birds against the April wind
Flew northward, singing as they flew; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX bXbX cdcd eeeX fXfc caca agag Xhih hchX dfdfXhihi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01010101 11010111 11111101 111111110 101110001 111111010 110101001 01010101 100010101 11111101 01010101 111110001 110101001 11011111 10110111 0101001010 101111101 11011101110 110111101 010100101 11010101 01010101 11010101 01011101 10010101011 11110011 010100101 11111111 10100111100 01010101 01010111 0101001001 101111001 01011111 11010101 010110100 10100101 011101001 11000101 01111101 11000101 01100011 11110111 10010111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; and, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, and, a are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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