This is an analysis of On A Bird by Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin.

A sweet-voiced bird's been caught.
They squeeze it in a vice-like grip.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXaX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,
  • Metre: 011101 11000111 01111101 1101101010
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 4