This is an analysis of the poem Looking Across The Fields And Watching The Birds Fly that begins with:
Among the more irritating minor ideas
Of Mr. Homburg during his visits home ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc aad dXd eaf cXX eab ghd iXX gcb geh hgi aia ccf iiiXcbh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101101010010 01010100101 0111010110 0101010101 1001000101 01010111001 01110011110 0101000100 11010010001 01110110101 010100010101 1111010101 01100111111 11111110111 01111100101 110010011101 00100110101 01101110101 111011111101 1111101100110 0010010101001 1111010101 0101001000100 1000100011001 010010110100 0101010001 11110000111 1111000111 10010100101 01010001010 11110100001 1111011111 111110101001 1111011101 01110110101 10110010101 0110010110101 0101001011 10101100101 01010010001 1110101010001 11111101001 010100101001 11010101010 0110011011111
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, not, for, we, what, of, part, too are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, too, we, a are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines world is repeated).
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