This is an analysis of the poem Ruby's Heart that begins with:

The bulbul's care is naught but the rose is his mate dear
The rose's care is naught but to bring grace to her cheer ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeebbccffee X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0101011010011 0101011011001 1110110101001 100111010001 11011110000101 10111001011001 0101001100101 1011001010111 1110010111 01010111011 010000100101001 0101011110001 11101010111 100101100111 0101001010101 1110100101 00101010101001 00110010100101 010110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 487
  • Average number of words per stanza: 95
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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  • summary of Ruby's Heart;
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