This is an analysis of The Messenger-Bird by Felicia Dorothea Hemans.
Thou art come from the spirits' land, thou bird!
Thou art come from the spirits' land!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbbb cdcd efef fdfd gcgc baba chch
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1110010111 11100101 1011111101 11001001 1110101111 00101101 11110111111 11111111 11111101101 00100111 1110100101 111101 11111010101 00101010 10110110101 1110101 11101101101 110101 110101101 1110101 1111100101 1111101 111110101 11111111 10100100101 1010001 1010110101 0100101 110110101 11110111 111111101 1111111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
thou, we, that, and, they, of, his
Anaphora
thou, though, and
