This is an analysis of the poem The Oven Bird that begins with:

There is a singer eveyone has heard,
Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcbdcdeecfcf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 1001010011 1011010111 1101011101 11111111110 11000011101 1101010101 11110111010 1101010101 1111011101 1101110101 0111101101 1111010101 0101110111 0101000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 580
  • Average number of words per stanza: 118
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of The Oven Bird;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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