This is an analysis of the poem The Orphan's Song that begins with:
I had a little bird,
I took it from the nest;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbb aaXAX bbbb bbXAX caAC bbbb bbXaX dbdb aaAA XaAA efef daad aaAAeaAA bgXg ggaXAX agga baba aggA ACac agbg gbbg bhbh bXbf fiif fiif aaaa haXA bgXgggaXAX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,4,5,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,8,4,6,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 110001 110110 110011 110101 11111 11010110 011101111101 11111110 110101 01111 110011 11001 11111 110011 11010110 011101111101 11111110 111111 111101 01011 010101 110111 1010101 010111 1111100 101101 100101 11010110 111101111101 11111110 110111 101111 111101 0110011 10111 110111 11101 10101 10101 10101 1010010 0010111 10111 110111 101101 11101 11101 110101 110101 011011 1011101 110111 11101 10101 10101 10101 1010010 0010111 01011 01011 11001100 111011 11011 1111011 1111110111 110010110 011101111101 11111110 11011 111101 111111 111111 11101 110101 111111 011101 100111 111111 11011 01011 01011 010101 110111 110111 01111 01111 11101 10111 1110111 1010111 10011 1011101 1110101 10111 10101 101001 11111 010100 11101 10101 10101 10111 1011 010001 10101 1011111 1010101 1010101 1010011 110101 10111 111011 110101 10111 010010 0010111 01011 01011 11001100 1111111 111111 11011 10101010111 110011110 011101111101 11111110
- Amount of stanzas: 28
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 127
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, i, and, with, my, you, may are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and, it, with are repeated.
The author used the same words i, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines why, heed, may, die are repeated).
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- summary of The Orphan's Song;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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