This is an analysis of the poem The Phoenix And The Turtle that begins with:
Let the bird of loudest lay,
On the sole Arabian tree,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bccd effe egge hXXh icci gggg bggb geeg cjjc cbbc gggg Xkkg X lla eee lll aaaXddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 10101001 1011100 0111101 1110100 1110001 1000101 0011111 0010101 10010101 1010101 1010011 1010101 1100101 0010101 10100101 1110101 1110101 0011111 1110111 1010101 1110001 1010101 00100101 1111101 1010101 1100101 1010111 10111010 1011111 1010101 10000010 1010101 1010101 1000101 1010101 1001101 1011101 1010101 1011111 10001010 10101010 00111010 10011010 1011101 1001001 1110101 0111101 1010101 0010101 1011101 11001101 10 1011100 1010100 1010101 1010101 1010101 0010011 1010100 1110100 0110100 1111100 1011111 1110100 0011101 1110111 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 106
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thou, in are repeated.
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