This is an analysis of the poem The Modest Jazz-Bird that begins with:
The Jazz-bird sings a barnyard song—
A cock-a-doodle bray, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcX dXeX adcd dbeb Xded
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110111 010101 01010101 011100 01011101 111101 1010101101 110101 0111110 010101 10111011 0010111 1001010 011101 10100010 110111 11011101 110011 01010101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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