This is an analysis of the poem The Red Shirt that begins with:
If I gave 5 birds
each 4 eyes ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXcbccdXaefgh hbbeaaijhaka fhlXdbkbhcmaa hXhkkabbacXjikgXhhccblaabbbmcgh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,12,13,31,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111 111 1101 1001 101001 11101 101 1101 10001 1011 0101 1011 1111 0110 111 111111 1101 1111 01011 01101 001 1011 111 0111 100110 00101 1111 11111 0011 00101 01101 11111 1111 1011 1011 011 10101 0110 111 01011 00011 1010010 01111 1010 00110 111 0101 1110 101 001001 1001001 00011 1010 111 01110 00111 011101 110001 01101 01011 00101 01010 1110 101001 110011 10101 01110 11101 101110 10111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 274
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The author used the same word this at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines day is repeated).
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- summary of The Red Shirt;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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