This is an analysis of the poem Stray Birds 91 - 99 that begins with:
91
THE great earth makes herself hospitable...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X ab X cXcc X ddXb X Xc X aec X ea X cfdX X ae XXfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,1,4,1,4,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,4,1,2,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 0111011100 001001 1 0111001 101010010 11010 110011 1 101001111 0110100101 110011110 0110010001 1 010101010 01011111 1 01 11 11111 1 010010 1101000010 1 1101010 110010101 111111010 11101001001 1 0100110011 010010001 1 1111000101 1001000101101010
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 49
- Average number of words per stanza: 10
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; world, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of Stray Birds 91 - 99;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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