This is an analysis of the poem Humming-Bird that begins with:
UP from the navel of the world,
Where Cuzco has her founts of fire,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc bcaXcab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010001 110101010 01000111 110101010 10110111 11011101 01011111 01011101 111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 106
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; of is repeated.
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- summary of Humming-Bird;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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