This is an analysis of the poem A Birthday Gift that begins with:
No gift I bring but worship, and the love
Which all must bear to lovely souls and pure,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba abba cddcdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111110101 1111010111 1111110101 1001011101 0111111111 1101110001 1100010101 11110110011 1111011101 11010001110 10110110001 1101110101 11111101010 101110111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 208
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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.
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