This is an analysis of the poem Love's More Delicate Than A Flower that begins with:

Love's more delicate than a flower,
And more precious than my life; ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcd eXfd XXgf dhfi Xcfj XXee ebfh fjXg eiXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 111001010 1110111 11001001 1101001 011111 001010100 0110011 1011001 111101101 1001001010 111001001 1011010 0110001111 1100101 0101010 1110001 110010101 001010101 10100101011 111100101 11110111 1111101 100100010 1111010 11010101 110101 110101101 0110101 111100100 1101001 101101011 1110111 10110101 010110101 111101010 1111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • 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.

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

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

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