This is an analysis of the poem The Resplendent Quetzal-Bird that begins with:
OTHERS have divers paints and enamels,
Lavish and bright on breast and wing feathers:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXb XXaX cXcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011011010 1011111110 11010110110 0010010 1101110010 11010010100 11110111010 01010 1101010010 01001110111 110111100100 010110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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