This is an analysis of the poem The Pigeons Fly that begins with:
The pigeons fly,
the pigeons come down......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBXcdeXXdfgeABgXhABccdcgagbABdfhXhahaehAB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 41,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101 01011 01011101 11110100 1100111 10100101 01111110 11111 0010010110101001 11011100010111001 11001000100011101 11111001001111101 0101 01011 1111101111100101001 111 111111001 0101 01011 111111101010110 01111101100 01100110110011010 0111110 111101111 111111101111 0011001 10011001 0101 01011 1111010011 11110111 11111101 1110111 11101110111 01111011 11101011011011 0111110011 110001 0111 0101 01011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1495
- Average number of words per stanza: 301
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
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; you, of, my, from, and, me, upon are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, you, from are repeated.
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- summary of The Pigeons Fly;
- central theme;
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