This is an analysis of The Poet And The Bird by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Said a people to a poet---' Go out from among us straightway!
While we are thinking earthly things, thou singest of divine.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXaX bXbX cacX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 10100010111001110 11110101110001 1010111001100011 110100111101010 01011100100110 1100111000111010 1101110101001010 11010001010101 01011101101011 01100111010101 111111011101011 110001011101000
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

and

Anaphora

the