This is an analysis of the poem Having Their Feathers Plucked that begins with:
The only ones seen steaming these days,
Are those having their feathers plucked publicly....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcdecdeXXeXadbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010111011 11101101100 011010001100000 001000101010 110100010010 11100100001010 100001111001 1001110101001 111011100000100 0100110101 10100100010001 1101010110110 1110011111 0101000100010101 0110110101001 01010010100100 1110111110110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 827
- Average number of words per stanza: 139
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; to, of are repeated.
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