This is an analysis of the poem Vulture that begins with:
I had walked since dawn and lay down to rest on a bare hillside
Above the ocean. I saw through half-shut eyelids a vulture wheeling...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdbcdeXeXXXXcXdXXaeXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111110110111 01010111111101010 11010 11000101110110010 100 11011 1111001011111101 10 10011111101110 1110101101011 110101111111101 1 1110111111111 100 11101 1111110011100100 11 100100111100 1111001101010010111 1 011010111111 10011011011100101 101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 986
- Average number of words per stanza: 174
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i are repeated.
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