Glad Bird, I Do Bewail Thee by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Glad Bird, I Do Bewail Thee that begins with:

Glad bird, I do bewail thee,
Thy song it was so sweet... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcaaa adadcaaa aeaebaaa ababcfaf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111101 110111 1111011 111001 11110101 010111 10101011 111101 1101111 110111 1101101 1100101 11111101 110111 1101111 111101 1111101 1101010 10111111 1001010 11110101 110101 1111011 110111 1111101 110111 10110011 010111 111011101 1100101 1111011 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 233
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; and is repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word away at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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