This is an analysis of The Fowls Flying In The Air by John Bunyan.
Methinks I see a sight most excellent,
All sorts of birds fly in the firmament:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbbccddee X ffbbggbbddaX
- Stanza lengths: 10,1,12,
- Metre: 1011011100 1101100100 1111100101 1101010011 1111000101 0101010111 1111010111 1110110101 11011101001 100101000111 0100 1111001111 11010101101 1110001111 0110110111 1111110111 0111110100 11010001101 1111010101 1111110111 0011010101 1101110010 1111001100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 23
Repeated words/phrases
and, they, in, all, some
Anaphora
so
