This is an analysis of the poem The Whitethroat that begins with:
Shy bird of the silver arrows of song,
That cleave our Northern air so clear,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abAbCX XdXd efef abAbCX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100101001 11110111 110101 11011 111100 100100 110010101 100101001 010110 11011 1100111101 10100111 110101 010001 1100101001 11001001 110101 11011 111100 100100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; canada, of are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase canada connects the lines.
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