This is an analysis of the poem The Mocking-Bird that begins with:
Superb and sole, upon a plumed spray
That o'er the general leafage boldly grew,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabXaccddaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0111010101 110010010101 1101011101 0101010101 0101111101 1111011101 1101110101 10010110111 1111110001 0110011011 11110100101 1100110111 1101011110 0101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 619
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.
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- summary of The Mocking-Bird;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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