This is an analysis of the poem Love Preparing To Fly that begins with:
He play'd his wings as tho' for flight;
They webb'd the sky with glassy light.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 11010101 01010110 101011 01000111 11101100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 198
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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