This is an analysis of the poem The Jackdaw that begins with:
There is a bird who, by his coat
And by the hoarseness of his note,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccb aadeed aafXbf ffgaag aahffh iieiie
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011101 11010001 100101 01100001 11011101 110101 01010101 11110101 0111010 11110101 10011101 1100010 10010001 10110101 110101 01010100 11011101 011101 111111110 110101110 011101 11010111 01010101 110011 11101101 01010101 110101 01010100 01011100 111111 11011111 10010001 1101010 11001101 11010111 1101010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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, its, of are repeated.
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- summary of The Jackdaw;
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