This is an analysis of the poem St. Francis And The Birds that begins with:

Little sisters, the birds:
We must praise God, you and I­ ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abba acca deed effe ghag ijji fkkf eXXe affa cddc lgXl dmmd egge njjb ibbi heeh bffnXcjjc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101001 1111111 1011101 10101 11101 1110111 10101001 10111 11111 1011111 10001001 11111 101010 1010101 1011101 101010 101011 11111001 1010111 11101 101001 0110111 1111111 11111 11101 1010111 1110101 10101 111010 1011100 0111111 001010 10011 1011101 1001111 01101 11100 1111101 1111101 00101 11101 1001111 01100011 01101 11101 10110111 1110100 00100 01111 0110111 0110111 10111 11100 0111101 1111101 10111 11111 0111101 1010111 01101 10101 0111111 11101101 11101 10101 1110101 1111101 10100 01111 1111111 1010111 11110
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, be, not, your, or are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, he, be, of 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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