This is an analysis of the poem By Faith With Thanksgiving that begins with:

LOVE is no bird that nests and flies,
No rose that buds and blooms and dies, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabcbc ddeefgfg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111111 11111111 11111101 110110100 10011101 110001010 11011011 111101010 10111101 00010101 10110111 110011100 10011101 11111111 11110111 00010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 295
  • Average number of words per stanza: 55
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, no, that are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.

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

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