This is an analysis of the poem Melmillo that begins with:
Three and thirty birds there stood
In an elder in a wood; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcccccc ccXabXddXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111 0110001 1100111 1010001 1100111 1011101 1100101 1110111 1100111 1010101 1111000 0111111 1011110 1001101 1010101 11100100 1010101 0010001 00111011 10111100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 328
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
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