This is an analysis of the poem Shore Birds that begins with:
While I think of them they are growing rare
after the distances they have followed...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdeebXXXccacfeXffdXfeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110011101 1001001110 1010011011 1001001011 0111100100 11101111011 1101010111 10101110110 1010110001 01010011010 101001010 0110110010 1110101101 1010111110 1101010010 1101011110 0111110011 1001110010 0011001011 1101100100 1111100011 0101010101 0101101110 1001001011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 992
- Average number of words per stanza: 191
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, them, of, and, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word they is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines them is repeated).
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