This is an analysis of the poem The Owl And The Sparrow that begins with:
In elder days, in Saturn's prime,
Ere baldness seized the head of Time,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccXdeeffggaahhff iijjkXccbbjXiXlX mmggllbbnneeoo ppbbbbggll ddeebbqq aallpp iijj ppjjXiiiffiiffjjbb bbooffppbbaa ddffjj ffXelliiookXbbllaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,16,14,10,8,6,4,18,12,6,18,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 11010101 11010101 11111001 1111110010 110101010 11111111 111100010 01010111 01010001 11110001 011110001 11111101 11010011 110010101 01101111 11011101 01110011 110101110 111100010 11010111 11110101 110101010 1100111010 1111001010 1101001000 110101010 1101010110 110100010 111111010 110101010 110101000 11011101 111100100 11010101 010001110 1100101010 101101010 1111101 11111111 11011111 11011101 110111001 11011101 01010101 11100101 11011011 11010101 11110101 11010101 11011011 01010001 11110101 01010111 0100101001 11010001 01011101 11011101 11010111 11010101 1111111 01010101 10010101 11000101 01010101 01110011 110101010 110101010 10111101 11010101 01010101 110010101 11010101 01010111 01110101 11011011001 11010101 11111101 101110101 11010101 11110000 11011111 10101100100 11010101 11001101 01110101 11010101 01110101 11010101 11110101 01010101 11011101 11010101 110100101 1001101 11011001 100011111 01110101 10010101 11010111 01110101 01010001 11010111 11010101 01011101 11000101 110100101 11111100 11110101 11010101 11010101 110101001 11110111 11110111 11111101 01011101 10110101 10110101 01111101 11110001 01110101 11110101 01111111 11000101 111111001 10100110100 110100111 11110111 11110111 11110101 11010101 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 443
- Average number of words per stanza: 79
- Amount of lines: 142
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, as, could, and, each, his, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words each, and, for are repeated.
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