This is an analysis of the poem A Cuckoo Song that begins with:
Crowns are for kings to wear, sad crowns of gold
Over tired heads that ache, world--cares untold.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXcddeeXXccaaff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011101 10101111101 11110111010 11110111110 10110111110 10111110010 111111011010 10111110110 10111110111 10011111111 1011000100110 10011111110 100101110011 10111111111 101111011011 11011011011 11110110011 10110110011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 922
- Average number of words per stanza: 175
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; crowns, we, our are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thee, comes are repeated).
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