This is an analysis of the poem The Flight Of Birds that begins with:
“a poem should be wordless
as the flight of birds.”...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBX c bdaebbafXccghdijah bjXa cg fhgaeej fijaehb bbXkXag kbbi fcaBXk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,1,18,4,2,7,7,7,4,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010 10101 101011100 111011 1010001 10111 10101 10100110100 1111011001110 11011010010 1100101 1011111101 11101101100 100100001011 100011101101 1100101011101 1101011 10101101 0101011110101010 101110010011010 1010001010101010 110010001001110101 110101010 0101110 01101011111 01000010011011001001 1011111110101 111001001 11110 0110001 1111 10101 110110 100 1111101 01010 0010010011010101 111010001001010101 0010010001110011 1011011011100 011101 01010011 1011110 111001010 1101000110101010 1010010110 11010101000 11010111 110110001 110110 0001001 110101 11101 01001 10 10 10101 11001001000
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; bang, and, lots, take, to, song are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, o, to are repeated.
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