This is an analysis of the poem I Saw A Flight Of Sparrows Through The Air that begins with:
I saw a flight of sparrows through the air.
Oh, let us rise ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1101010101 1111 1001000101 0101 1111110111 11010 0100010101 010010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; of is repeated.
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