This is an analysis of the poem Something Fowl To De-Feather that begins with:
Time is trying so hard,
To be kind......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa bccde cXfXfbe fgfagdgh XX iddgX dXfbjkcX hXlakg XfX kejfl kX cfcedbai iX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,5,7,8,2,5,8,6,3,5,2,8,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011 001 001001011 110110101 101010 01010101010 11010 1001000110 111010 001001010 101010101 11101010 101110101 1011 110100110 11 11110111 1101 11001 101101001101 1100010110 100101101 101 000101 0100101 11 1010 0110 10010101 10111 100100 010010011 111 111010110 1 11111 01101011 1010 1 1110111100 11110100 110110001 11111101 0101101 10110 010011001 0111011011 1 111010 11 1111 0100111010 1101101 0111011 010 1111 0111110 11010 01001010010 10001 010110 110001101010 111101010 11010011
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, i 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.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Something Fowl To De-Feather;
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