This is an analysis of the poem The Beaks Of Eagles that begins with:

An eagle's nest on the head of an old redwood on one of the
precipice-footed ridges...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abacdedbfgXbgfedXafXdbebcdXfgb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101101011111100 1001010 011001111011010 101000101110 01011110101101 11101010010 011001011110110110 00100 110100111001101 1001000101 01100101111110100 10111110 111011111010011 110111001 010011011111111 11011110101 1101110101010 00101001010111000 10101101111101 1101110101101010 1011100110011011 010101011 111101110110001 011010 00011 011101110101011 10101101001 011001001001100011 01101110111101 01100101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1563
  • Average number of words per stanza: 290
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she, and, same are repeated.

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  • summary of The Beaks Of Eagles;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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