This is an analysis of the poem Ornithology that begins with:
Walking toward the library, I pass three children
staring down at a dead crow and daring each other...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbccdcXcdXeccXeddXbaXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001011011110 1011011110110 010001 1110111010011 111011100010 111111101 10110010111 1011101011011 101110111011 000101010 101010010001010 10101010101100 1001010110110 110110101111 10101101111 010100 11001110101 1101011111 11101010111 110101010101 1001111 1111001011 110101001101 0111111011 101101010101 0100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1161
- Average number of words per stanza: 214
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; i, and, to are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Ornithology;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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