This is an analysis of the poem Birds Of Passage that begins with:

When the maples flame with crimson
And the nights are still with frost, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbXded efcfXbfb adcdgege
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101010 1011101 10101010 0010101 10101010 10100101 10101011 011111 0111110 111111 0101110 111101 0100110 1010011 1101010 1010001 1101010 0101001 1111110 1110101 0101010 110101 00101010 1010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less 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, no are repeated.

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  • summary of Birds Of Passage;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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