This is an analysis of the poem The Bird Of Jesus that begins with:
IT was pure indeed,
The air we breathed in, the light we saw,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdefc gfhd Xagga ghiaj kielcc melj iXgal aahjnj mhajkffh kfbnkf nnnmfjXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,4,5,5,6,4,5,6,8,6,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01101 011100111 1111011111 1101010111 11101101010 1011111101 1101 11010111010 11010111010 01111101010 1100110100 1101011111 110101111011 1111010 10111 1011010101 1101 11011101010 1100111101 1101000101 11000111010 1101 1111110101 11110111110 1101110001 011011 1111010101 1111 0100010100 1101110001 110101 110101 1101000111 0111010101 1100011001 011001 110111 0101111101 10010110110 1101000101 1101111111 1001 1111 11110111010 11001011101 1111011101 1101010111 10100101011 1111101111 01011 1111011111 1111010101 1011010111 1101011101 11111100110 1001010101 10011101111 1101001101 11011101111 1111011111 0111010101 111011 10011011101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 63
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- 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; we, with, two, and, to, flew, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines us is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases houses, flew connect the lines.
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