This is an analysis of the poem As A Strong Bird On Pinious Free that begins with:
AS a strong bird on pinions free,
Joyous, the amplest spaces heavenward cleaving,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXba cdefgfhiXjj gjakgcjfb Xbgcgicjc jgdccgaXXa ffaggaXlakhckXaa iamigdnXgkXhiocaeXlaojbcoXXkc oaccmcfkggacgXgcgmfcfhaiibjmgaXX jaXX ilX nXjeX gieohicegohghXlmXamdmXbji mmihXXjXga
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,11,9,9,10,16,29,32,4,3,5,25,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111101 100101010010 10011101010100 1001000110111 010001001011111 101001111111 1110101010101111 110 111011011010010010 1110110110 0101001011011011010 1011001 001001011101001 11001001011101011 1100100111001 111100110001110 110101100111110010 11111111111 1101010101111 101010 111001011001 1011011001 11010100100100 11010010010010 10011101011 0101010000100100 10 10100101000110101 011001010101101 11 1101010101100101 01 01010110101001 111100111001011 1 1111011111010111 110001101110111000 101000 001000101000111010 1 010101010001100 100011 0101011000101 1111100100 0100111100110 01010101 11010100100110110 10001 1101011111101011 1 011100010110010111 01 011101010101011 1010100 111111010101010 11001111011111 1010101 1000101010101 1101010101 1001011001110011 10100101100101 100100010010011 101001001011 1011011101010010 100 010010101011001001 11 1001100101 100111010010110 01001010011 10010100100010001010 0100 1100101001100101010 1 1001010101010100 0101 011101010101010000 01 11011101011011011 111100100010010 11110010101110 1110100100010100 1 1111101111100100010 1 1111101001110010111 1111110011 11010101 10110 1011010010111100011 1010 110101001010100100011 101001 1100110100111101 0100 10010011111111 1010101 01010101001010001 101101010111101 111010001111 01010110011100101 0101010101 10110101010111110 101101110010011110 0100111001010101 101101010101010110 101010 11010100110110010 01101001001110 10110101010101010 101 10110101011110100100 1010010 1011000010101010100 100110101 1011001011110100 1111101010 010101010101111001 100011010 110110010111001 110101010111000110 11 10010100011010 10010100011010 11011101 001011110010101010 100101 1001010111 11110111100 0100101111100011011 111001011 101101011100111 110101 10111000011 01111101011111 1101110 110001011100100010 10 1011101010111011 1 01001011101010110 01110 01010101001100111 10011101 010001100101111 010 111111010101010 1 11011011110111101 11111111011101 11110101010101 101010 1001001001010100010 1 11010100001001000 10101 010100 010100011 010111010001 010100010100 1101110100 1100101111001110 010101 1101011101110001 00111111111111 0101111 01010111111
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 673
- Average number of words per stanza: 101
- Amount of lines: 171
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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; nor, of, or, and, thee, it, thou, to, thy, with, world, by, i, in, all, they, soul, its, destinies, real are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words such, nor, through, thou, with, world, i, thee, not, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it, thee, man, thyself, real are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word thee at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases thought, it, thee connect the lines.
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