This is an analysis of the poem Bare Boughs that begins with:
O heart,-that beat the bird's blithe blood,
The blithe bird's strain, and understood... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bcbc dddd efef agag bebe ahah
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111 01111101 01010111 111001 11110111 01110111 11111111 110101 11110101 01000111 11010101 011101 01010111 110100101 110010101 011101 01011101 11111110 11011101 111101 01110101 011100001 01111101 110001 01110101 11111111 11111101 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, one, song are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, a are repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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