This is an analysis of the poem Wooing Song that begins with:

LOVE is the blossom where there blows
Every thing that lives or grows:... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddaaeeffgghhGG iiaagXddggaaffjjjjddggjjGG
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,26,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010111 10011111 1110101 1011101 1011111 11010101 10111101 10111111 1110101 11010001 11010111 110101011 1010101 1010101 10011101 11111111 1011101 1011101 1011101 11011100 11010101 1111101 1010101 1110101 1111001 1010100 1100101 1111111 10011101 1010001 1110101 1001011 1010101 00110101 1010101 0110101 100101001 01010111 1110111 01011111 10101011 01100011 1010111 1110111 1011101 11011100
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 730
  • Average number of words per stanza: 142
  • Amount of lines: 46
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; love, and, can, thy, as are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word not is repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word be at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase love connects the lines.

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