This is an analysis of the poem Allie that begins with:
Allie, call the birds in,
The birds from the sky....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abCbDceae aaCaDcfXf XdCdDXded aaCaDgege
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010 01001 101101 1111 111 111 1010001 1010101 101011 101010 011001 101101 0111 111 111 1010111 1010101 101111 101011 01001 101101 1111 111 111 01010101 1010101 101011 101010 10001 101101 1110 111 111 1111101 11110101 101011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; allie is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word then is repeated.
The author used the same word allie at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase children connects the lines.
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- summary of Allie;
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