This is an analysis of the poem The Owl that begins with:
Here is a tale for ladies with romances:
There was an owl; composer and musician,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacddcbefbef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10011100010 11110101010 11111011010 111111010010 10011101110 11011101110 01010111010 11010111110 11111100010 01111101010 1000101001110 111100100010 010101010010 11110101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 625
- Average number of words per stanza: 108
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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.
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- summary of The Owl;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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