This is an analysis of the poem Archy's Song From Charles The First (A Widow Bird Sate Mourning For Her Love) that begins with:
Heigho! the lark and the owl!
One flies the morning, and one lulls the night:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eXeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1001101 1101011101 100100111 110111011 1101110101 010101 01011101 010101 1111010101 1100101 11010001 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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