This is an analysis of the poem Pauper Poet's Song that begins with:

Sun, moon, and stars, the ample air,
The birds shrill whistling everywhere, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabccbccdeED eebeebffdeED
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101 01110101 1101110 010101001 01110101 0101110 01010111 01011001 11011110 0111001001 010100101 0101110 11110100 01011101 1101010 11110101 11110101 1111010 11010011 10111101 1011110 11111101 010100101 0101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 427
  • Average number of words per stanza: 76
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word it at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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