This is an analysis of the poem Birdsong that begins with:
Birdsong brings relief
to my longing...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101 0110 011010111 101001 11010110 1111011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 6
- 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.
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