This is an analysis of the poem To A Skylark that begins with:
Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!
Bird thou never wert,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaa bXbXX XcXcc cacaa dedee efeff agagX caXaa cbcbb chXhh XdXdd diddi fcfcc XXXXa dcdcc XgigX jkjkk babaa cecee dfdff Xhihh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110 11101 1010110 10111 001101000001 101110 001110 101010 011110 1101111101010 001010 00101 1011110 11111 111001110110 011010 10111 101010 00111 110111111101 111010 01101 101110 00111 011101111001 10111 01101 11101 01101 0111011100101 111111 10111 0111111 11101 1011010010100 101010 00101 101100 10101 010001110101 101110 001010 100110 101010 0101111101010 101110 00101 1001000 01001 0101011110001 1011000 00111 1111000 10101 11011111011 101010 101001 101010 11101 101111110101 11111 11111 11101 10111 110101010101 10100 10101 101101 11101 010111101101 1101010 01101 1111110 110111 110111110001 011110 10100 110010 10111 11011111100 10101 10111 11111 11101 111111010101 1101110 111101 110010 01101 110111110101 10111 11111 01011 10101 111111110111 101110 00101 101110 10111 110100110001 111010 11111 1010010 01111 0111011111001
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 105
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; what, or, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word what is repeated.
The author used the same word like at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of To A Skylark;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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