This is an analysis of the poem The Yellow Bittern that begins with:
The yellow bittern that never broke out
In a drinking bout, might as well have drunk; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbaXdaccacefXf XgegbahadXXdXaha
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101011011 0010111111 011110101 1110110101 1101011011 11110111101 111001111101 11111100101 0110101111 011011101 1101011101 1100100111 1011110111 1111111101 101001001001 1111111001 110110111 1111010001011 11101111111 10101111001 1110100111 110100111 110111111 111111101 0010010110001 0101001001 1111101101 10100110101 1110011111001 101101111001 101101111001 1011111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 734
- Average number of words per stanza: 148
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, my, and are repeated.
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- summary of The Yellow Bittern;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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