This is an analysis of the poem Pigeons that begins with:
ODALISQUES, odalisques,
Treading the pavement...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XABcdcXAB XXEfgadXE gX Xd fa d g X d gX dXXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,2,2,2,1,1,1,1,2,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10001000 10010 0110001 110111 1000 11111 10001000 10010 0110001 1001 101 1011 10110 0011010 1001 111010 101 1011 111111 10110 1 101111001010101011010101100111100011100111011110010111101101001110001110101011110001101010 11111111100111011000101011000110110101000111110010101011110 1101001010111111 1011001011100101101011011111100101 1111011011011010011 011101110110111101101010111010 1111101011011011000110111101010 1110110010110101111001111111 001 011001111110101001101101010 110110111010100110110101101010001 101101011010011
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you, that, your, to, sand are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Pigeons;
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