This is an analysis of the poem The Mother Bird that begins with:

Through the green twilight of a hedge
I peered, with cheek on the cool leaves pressed,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbcbbdXdXbccXbbab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111001 110110111 11010101 11110101 10111011 101110101 111100101 11011101 11011101 110101010 11110101 110011101 01011101 110010100 11010111 10010111 1010100101 10010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 735
  • Average number of words per stanza: 120
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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