This is an analysis of the poem The Heart's Desire that begins with:
God made her body out of foam and flowers,
And for her hair the dawn and darkness blent;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXX babaa cdcdd efefX XgXgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101110 1101011101 111100110010 1001010100 100100 11010101110 0111110101 10010101010 11011011101 111101 101101001010 0100111111 100101000110 01100010101 111011 10110100010 1101010101 10111101010 0101010001 100101 111101001010 10111101101 11010011010 1011001101 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 201
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her, of, my are repeated.
The author used the same word god at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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