This is an analysis of the poem To a Robin Redbreast that begins with:
SINGING IN WINTER
Oh light of heart and wing,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bccbdd ceecff baabgg hhhhXi ijjihh gddgkk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10010 110111 110111111 0101010101 111101 1111011111 0011011111 111101 0101111101 1101000101 111101 1101011101 1111110111 111101 11010001010 01110001110 1111001 1101010101 11010001001 111101 1011010111 0111010101 011101 0111111100 1001011101 111101 1111010101 1011010101 001110 10111100101 1111010101 111101 11010110001 11110100111 011101 1010010101 1100111001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; light, thou, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word which is repeated.
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