This is an analysis of the poem To Our Mocking-Bird that begins with:
Died of a cat, May, 1878.
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X a bccbbccbddeeff X bbbbbbbbaaggff X bhhbbhhbieiXff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,14,1,14,1,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 100111 1 1001010101 10010001010 1101010010010 11110100111 0101110111 11011001010 11011101010 1101010100 0100110111 1101010101 01001011111 0101010101 1111010111 1111110101 1 11110111111 01001110101 1101111111 1111110111 0111011111 1111111101 1111101101 11011001111 1111111101 1101011101 1101111101 1111111101 1111111101 0111111101 1 1111100111 0111111101 1111110101 1101110101 1011110101 1001110101 101010010101 1011110101 1001010001 1110011111 1011101101 1101001110 11111111001 1111000111001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 296
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, thou, wrong are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of To Our Mocking-Bird;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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