This is an analysis of the poem Pheasant that begins with:
You said you would kill it this morning.
Do not kill it. It startles me still,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aba bcb ccc cXc XaX ada dXd XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110010 111001011 010111110 101111011 001001010 110010011 111100000 101101010 001000100 110010001 010011110 011101011 010000110 110010110 000101001 101010110 010111111 101100011 001001110 001010100 010110111 100011010 011000100 1111001010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 107
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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; it is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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