This is an analysis of Birds, The by Ina D. Coolbrith.

God bless the bird-
List to its caroling!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXabbX cddeec ddbbffXf
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,8,
  • Metre: 1101 100100 101101 1100100 100100 10001 0101 010101 111101 110101 101111 1011 1001 110101 101100 101100 1101 110110 111001 1101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

were

Epiphora

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