This is an analysis of the poem The Sparrow's Nest that begins with:
BEHOLD, within the leafy shade,
Those bright blue eggs together laid!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXaccca bbddXceeec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 11110101 11010101 11010001 11010010 011101 01010111 11010111 11010111 010100 111011010 101100010 11100101 01010011 01001101 101101 11111111 110111001 01010011 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 331
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; it, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, my are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
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