This is an analysis of the poem Birds that begins with:
The fierce musical cries of a couple of sparrowhawks hunting
on the headland,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXbXaXXXcXddbcbdXXXXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110010010010010 1010 10011011100 111010110100100 10 100101111 10110010110101000 10 10001100110 0111101110010011 1100 11001100011 11011101110011 110 010011010011 00011101101010 101100100 100010011010 110110101111110 100100 1111011111010 110100100010110 1001 11001101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1033
- Average number of words per stanza: 175
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; of, wind, and are repeated.
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