This is an analysis of the poem Earth's Preference that begins with:
Earth loves her young: a preference manifest:
She prompts them to her fruits and flower-beds;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXaabbaacdacd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11010100101 1100011101 1100010100 1101001101 1011100011 01110010101 0101111011 0111111101 1110110111 1111111111 1111011101 1111000101 1101011011 1001110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 630
- Average number of words per stanza: 121
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, they are repeated.
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