This is an analysis of the poem The Little Flowers of Love and Wonder that begins with:

Birds flying in the air over a river
And children playing in a meadow beside it.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdadefGFaXcccdXefGgFXbXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11000110010 110100011010 01111101 1011 1100010 0101 1111 1111 111 10001 111011000110010 1010100011 101110101 101 101001 101111110001 1010100 0101 0101 111 1111 10001 10001 110011 1111 1010011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 697
  • Average number of words per stanza: 137
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, in, wheel are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines wheel, myself are repeated).

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