This is an analysis of the poem Morning Song Of Love that begins with:

Darling, my darling, my heart is on the wing,
It flies to thee this morning like a bird,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efefXdcdc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10110110101 0101010101 1101011110111 0111111101 0100110011101 0101000101 1111110010101 1101111111 0101110010101 1101101111 1011110101111 0101010111 0101011011101 1100010101 01000101010111 1111110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; my is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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