This is an analysis of The Red Bird by Andrew Jackson Downing.

When the summer sky is a tent of blue,
And rosy June is the regnant queen,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,
  • Metre: 1010100101 110100101 010101101 010100101 1010011101 010100111 1100100101 1010110111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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