This is an analysis of the poem When I Was A Bird that begins with:

I climbed up the karaka tree
Into a nest all made of leaves... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbXcadXXcXbdbXXXcaXeec
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101001 00011101 11110 11101111101101 110101111101 10100011001 111010 1011111100110 10010 1110011101 11110 01110110110 101101011001 111111010101 1010110110010 1111001111010 111111111010 101011110 111101101111 110 1010101010 11010101010 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 949
  • Average number of words per stanza: 177
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines matter is repeated).

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