This is an analysis of the poem The Poor Can Feed The Birds that begins with:
Ragged, unheeded, stooping, meanly shod,
The poor pass to the pond: not far away... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXa bcb dcd efe gfG aXa ege dcd acaXgcG
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001010101 0110011101 011101 1011000101 1111010100 1101001 0111011101 1001011100 110101 01110100111 0011010001 0101001 1101110101 1011000100 011101 10010100001 1101010111 111001 0101011001 1101000101 011001 1011011011 1011010100 110111 0111111011 11110100100 111101 1001110101 0011011100 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Poor Can Feed The Birds;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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