This is an analysis of the poem The White Birds that begins with:
I WOULD that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea!
We tire of the flame of the meteor, before it can fade and flee;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbccddaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101011101001 110001001000101111 101001101111101001 110001110100101111 01001011011001011 111001010010010011 101001111011001001 111101011101001111 11101100101100101 1111001111011111 11001101011001110 0110111010101101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 845
- Average number of words per stanza: 173
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 70 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
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