This is an analysis of the poem The Three Bushes that begins with:
SAID lady once to lover,
'None can rely upon... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdbE XcfcbXE ghchcXE ieIeIXEchbXXhE hiiijXe kckcjcE XlclhlEfmcmgmE kXbjbjEXabdbebE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,14,7,7,14,15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 110101 01110101 101101 11111101 110111 111111 11110011 110101 11111101 110011 10111110 111111 111111 1101010 110011 11111111 011101 11111111 0111100 111111 1111011 111111 11011101 11101 11011101 1101010 111111 11111101 110111 11010101 110111 110100100 110111 111111 11010111 101101 01011011 111011 11110101 10101010 1111111 11010101 010111 01011101 111110 01011101 110111 111111 11011101 000101 11010111 010101 11110111 11001 111111 01001111 110001 1111010 111111 11010101 101101 111111 1111110 011111 1101010 111001 1111001 110101 111111 11011100 010101 11011101 111101 1111011 110101 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 242
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 77
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; dear, i, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word dear at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase did connects the lines.
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