This is an analysis of the poem Shiva that begins with:
There is a hawk that is picking the birds out of our sky,
She killed the pigeons of peace and security,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabacXcdbdXdee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10011010011011 110100110100 1110100110001011 1010010100100 1101010101010 100110101001011 1000101110110 0001111011 000101010101011 01101100111001001 110001101001101 1010100111 10101001111011 11100111001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 789
- Average number of words per stanza: 149
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, she, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, this are repeated.
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