This is an analysis of A Captive Throstle by Alfred Austin.
Poor little mite with mottled breast,
Half-fledged, and fallen from the nest,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccde aaddaaffdeffggcchhbbggbbhhii hhhjjXadXjjkkaallkkddeeff ff dddkkbbmmddnnjjggffooddiiXX dd bboodeppggaaXade
- Stanza lengths: 8,28,25,2,27,2,16,
- Metre: 11010101 11110001 11011110 11011111 11011101 00110101 01111110 10110100 11100111 10110101 10110101 01011101 11010111 10111101 110100111 01011101 11011111 01111100 10110101 11011111 11010111 11111111 11010111 10011111 01111111 11110111 11010101 10011101 11011101 11011101 11110111 11010101 1101101001 11011101 110010101 11111111 11011111 01110111 01011101 10010101 10010101 11011101 11111101 11110001 110010110 11010101 10111100 11011111 110011011 10010101 11010111 111100101 11011101 011101010 110100110 11011010 10111111 100111010 110111010 11010111 01010101 11001101 10011101 10010101 11111111 11001101 111111010 011101010 010100010 010001010 100101110 101111010 100100111 11011101 11011101 11010101 11110110 11111101 10111101 10010001 110111001 10111101 010111001 11011101 11111111 10010101 01010101 10111111 10111101 110101010 11011111 11111011 10011111 01010111 10111101 01100101 010100101 11010100 01000111 110110111 01010101 11011101 01000011 01010001 011110010 11110101 11111111 01110100
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 108
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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