This is an analysis of the poem My Aviary that begins with:

THROUGH my north window, in the wintry weather,--
My airy oriel on the river shore,--... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab Xcdc efef egeg aXab egXg ahah gfgX egeg fifi gfgX djdj kgkg akak lglg egeg mfmf fnfn dXXb ggXg XlXl lblb ikikXecec
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110001010 1101010101 11011111010 1101010101 01110101100 1011011100 01110101010 1011010101 11010101010 11111100111 11010111110 1101011001 11010011010 1101010101 111100101010 0101010001 11010101110 11010010110000 01110101010 1111010101 10010101010 11011010101 11010101010 1101000101 10110100010 1111011111 01010001010 1101111011 10111111110 0101011101 10110111110 1101011010 11011101110 1101011111 11011111110 1101110111 11110101001 1101000101 01010111000 01010101001 1111000001010 11011001001 110010101110 101101110100 11100101010 1100111101 01110011010 0101011101 10111100111 1001101111 11010101111 1101111011 11011101010 1011110101 110000101010 1011010111 100101001110 1011010101 01110101110 1001110101 11011101110 0111010101 10111101010 11010010111 11110101010 11010100101 10110111110 01110111001 11011101010 0111010101 11011101110 1101011111 00011100010 110101010110 1101111000 0111000101 111111001010 11110100101 100110100010 0101000111 11010101100 11010010001 11110110000 1101110111 011101001010 1111010101 111100101010 10011010101 011101010101 11100010101 11010111011 1101010101 01011011010 11110100101 11111101010 0101011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 24
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 198
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 96
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; him, he, no are repeated.

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

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  • summary of My Aviary;
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  • history of its creation;
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