This is an analysis of the poem Owl Against Robin that begins with:
Frowning, the owl in the oak complained him
Sore, that the song of the robin restrained him... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdde XeebbbXXddaa ffgggaaddhhbbbbffaaiXdd bbjjaaiikkllllkkaaiiddjjffffeegX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,12,23,32,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001001011 11010010011 100101001 1001001001101 11111110 10110110110 1011011110 10110111010 1111 11101111 1101011011 11111111 11101111101 110110101 101001001011 01001110110 111110110010 11011110110 11111111010 1001010111 010111 010100101 010010101 11101101001 1001001001 100011101 110110111 111010111 11101101001 00110110111 1101101001 10010101 0101101001 1111001001 101001101001 0100111111 00110100111 10100100101 110111101 1001001001 1011110111 01101101001 1100100101 010001101001 110101101 00101001 100100111 01001001011 1110101101 1111101001 1100101101 011011101 10111 11011101 110010111 0100100101 0111001001 111011101 1010101 10001101001 011011101 011011101 1010011 1010101 10110111 1010100111 1111101 0010010111 101111101 101101 00100101001 110111101 110111111 1 11011111 110010010010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 793
- Average number of words per stanza: 143
- Amount of lines: 76
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, from, over, and, cheep, day, oh, that, to are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him, time, day, stars are repeated).
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