This is an analysis of the poem The Blossoming Of Love Is Strange And Wondrous that begins with:

The blossoming of love is strange and wondrous!
When I acquired the knowledge of love,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a XbXc Xcdc eXXc edad cXfX bXeX aacf X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01000101110 1101001001 11001 1101110 101010100 1101010001 0100110 0111111 11101001011 1011010101 11001011001 010000 1111010 11100100101001 100110100110 111010110101 111011011001010 10111011 01100100111 111010100110 101000110 11111001 111101 1101011101 10010100101 1010110 111110110 1011110110 001101101100 010001011100
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

    The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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