This is an analysis of the poem A Rose Has Thorns As Well As Honey that begins with:

A rose has thorns as well as honey,
I'll not have her for love or money; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccccccddaaaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011111110 111011110 11011111 11101101 10101111 11101111 10101111 10111111 10001101 01100101 1110111 11011111 111101110 10101010 11101110 10111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 573
  • Average number of words per stanza: 106
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; me, would, holly are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).

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