This is an analysis of the poem Thirteen Blackbirds Looking At A Man that begins with:
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It is calm....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcdeXfg X ahggidg X jhXidXd X dgad a geklb a Xkked X iijf X Xhcigk X fdjgml i mmdkd a jXkkb X kjikfd XXkiddb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,7,1,7,1,7,1,4,1,5,1,5,1,4,1,6,1,6,1,5,1,5,1,6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 001 0011 110010 111101 10100 0110 1100100 1 100 110100 010100 11011 0010 101001 1010100 1 1010 10110 110111 110010 100010 001000011 10011 1 1110 0110111 01111 100101001 1 10111 10010001 11000 0110010 1010101 1 1111 1010 1001 1000011 001001 1 1001 10101 0011 111110 1 110 101010 01011 10011 101001 111 1 001 001010 11010 0101 1110111 1001010 1 0111 1111 1011001 1100110 01010010 1 111 110000 111011 101110 1001000101 1 111 10100 0101 1111 11111 001001 1 100 111010 011101 0010010 01001010
- Amount of stanzas: 26
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 61
- Average number of words per stanza: 12
- Amount of lines: 85
- Average number of symbols per line: 18 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; there is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines are is repeated).
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