This is an analysis of the poem The Wood Thrush that begins with:
Bird, with the voice of gold,
Dropping wild bar on bar,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababa bcbcb dcdcd Xaeae ddddd fdfdf bgbgb dedXd fhfhf ieiei adada aXada jkjkj iaiaiXfbfbf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101 101111 0101001 101101 100101 100111 110101 010111 101101 110101 101101 100111 101101 100101 101101 100100 1001001 010101 101101 101101 100111 110101 101101 1001001 101111 11100 101001 100111 110111 100100 100111 100111 100101 100111 1001011 111111 1000101 1011001 100111 101111 100101 101101 100101 100001 100101 100101 100101 100101 101101 100101 110111 100101 110111 100100 101011 110111 110101 101111 100111 100101 1101101 100101 101101 101101 110111 110111 100101 100101 101101 110101 110101 111111 110111 111101 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 75
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, that, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word till is repeated.
The author used the same words bird, art at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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