This is an analysis of the poem The Invalid to the Caged Bird that begins with:
What are you singing my beautiful bird?
What are the words of your song?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eeae fded fdad Xece agXg bhXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111011001 1101011 1111011101 01011111 1101101011 11101011 1001101101 11011011 1111101001 111011011 11001001111 11001011 11111001001 01001101 001101011001 01011011 1101001001 001011001 1101001011 101111011 1111001011 111011001 1111001001 01001101 111010011001 10001011 10001011001 101001101 11111011101 11111001 101001001010 01001101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, shut are repeated.
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