This is an analysis of the poem Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Blackbird that begins with:

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Among twenty snowy mountains, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcd X bab X be X fFdF a XbbcX a XgdhdXb X Xbdih X gbhdh X iXb g bijj a iXeXXb X cc XXfchib
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,1,3,1,2,1,4,1,5,1,7,1,5,1,5,1,3,1,4,1,6,1,2,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 01101010 010101 1010011 1 11011 101 0111110 1 010100101 0101100101 1 011010 11 0110101010 11 1 11111001 0100010 101000010 01010 1110 1 10010110 00101 0110010 10011 01 10011 1100001 1 111010 111010101 11111010 10101 0010011 1 111010 1101010010 1111 1010001 0111 1 10101101 0101 0101010 1 101010 100011 10010100 11110 1 11100100 0011 10111 01101 01100100 110 1 010010 0101010 1 01101101 0110 1011001 0101 00101
  • Amount of stanzas: 26
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 53
  • Average number of words per stanza: 10
  • Amount of lines: 67
  • Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, it are repeated.

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  • history of its creation;
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