This is an analysis of the poem The Crane Is My Neighbour that begins with:
The bird is my neighbour, a whimsical fellow and dim;
There is in the lake a nobility falling on him.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa AA bb cc dd eeXAA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 01011001001011 10001001001011 01001011001101 101011101001001 01011011001011 111011101101101 111010101110010 010010011010010 11010111101101 01111101111101 01011011101101 11101001111001 01001011001101 101011101001001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, as 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.
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