This is an analysis of the poem The Starling that begins with:
Ah starling! Most welcome, you bird of good cheer!
Are we to have all your pranks again here?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdXeeffgggXaaXdXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11011011001 1101111011 1111011011 1111111011 1111000101 101001001 1101001111 10001001100 1101011001 10111111011 1101111011 1101101001 1011011001 1101011011 1111011101 1001101010 1101101011 0001001111 1111000001 01001111101 1111011010 1001100100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 923
- Average number of words per stanza: 173
- Amount of lines: 22
- 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; you, like, of are repeated.
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- summary of The Starling;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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