This is an analysis of the poem The Caged Thrush that begins with:
Alas for the bird who was born to sing!
They have made him a cage; they have clipped his wing;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0110111101 11110111101 1111100101 1110101101 10110111011 00110111001 10111100001 1011100100 111110111 11001101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 459
- Average number of words per stanza: 94
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, have, and, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, and are repeated.
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- summary of The Caged Thrush;
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- history of its creation;
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