This is an analysis of the poem The Tame Bird Was In A Cage that begins with:

THE tame bird was in a cage, the free bird was in the forest.
They met when the time came, it was a decree of fate....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXXX XXXX XXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 011100101110010 1110110100101 0111111111001 0111011011110010 101110110110111 10101111111011001 01111101010010 01111111111010010 01011111111001 01111011111010010 11001010111011101 101001111101101110 1101101011110110 01111100110110010 011101011110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 351
  • Average number of words per stanza: 73
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 69 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 15
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; bird, in, cage, ' are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    The author used the same word the 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 ' is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of The Tame Bird Was In A Cage;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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