This is an analysis of the poem As In Their Flight The Birds Of Song that begins with:

AS in their flight the birds of song
Halt here and there in sweet and sunny dales,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXabaccc cdeeddeffeddd eefdfdggf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,13,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110101 1111011101 111100 01110101 111100101 110101 11010101 010111 010101 1101010101 0101110101 10111100111 011001 010111 10010100110 1101111101 1011011101 1111000101 010111 1111110111 100010100101 1001010101 11111101 11010101 1101111101 0111010101 110101 110001 1101010101 00010010101 0111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 364
  • Average number of words per stanza: 69
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; they, and are repeated.

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