This is an analysis of the poem De Snowbird that begins with:
O leetle bird dat's come to us w'en stormy win' she's blowin',
An' ev'ry fiel' an' mountain top is cover wit' de snow,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX babX XaXX XXXX XaXX XaXX cacX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111011101110 11011101010101 1101111001010 11110101111010 11011101110111 01000101110111 11110101110111 11110111111010 1011001010111110 1111111010111 1111111111101110 10111011111010 1010111010101011 11101110110110 111111101011111 10111010111010 110101011111111 11110101110111 1010101111101111 11111011111010 1111111011111110 11001101110101 1011111110101110 101010010111010 1011101001101011 011110111110101 1011101110101111 11111111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you're, you, de, on are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word oiseau at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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