This is an analysis of the poem Owl that begins with:
Clocks belled twelve. Main street showed otherwise
Than its suburb of woods : nimbus—-...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaa aabb cccc dXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111101 10100110 111001010 01010 101101011 10101100 001010100 01110 110111001 10101010 0101100101 10001 001001010 11010010 101111010 10111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Owl;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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