This is an analysis of the poem A Hymn Of Love that begins with:

O hush, sweet birds, that linger in lonely song!
Hold in your evening fragrance, wet May--bloom!... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcaac dedefggf dhdhiddi jjjjgccg dkdklffl
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11111100101 1011010111 11010111101 1011011001001 1010101001111 101011001010 010101110010 0101110111 1001111101 01001100011 110010101001 11010110101 1101010111 11001010101 110101100101 01011110111 11011110101 11101011101 01101101101 11010011011 10011110111 010011101101 101101101111 11111101110 1101010011 10111111001 11001111111 10110100111 11010100101 11010101101 1011100110111 00100111111111 01001011101 110110110111 11011111101 11010110101 1010111100011 0010110101111 101001011101 001111110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 387
  • Average number of words per stanza: 73
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • 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; in, my, and, i are repeated.

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

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