This is an analysis of the poem An Offer Of Marriage that begins with:
Once I 'dipt into the future far as human eye could see,'
And saw-it was not Sandow, nor John Sullivan, but she... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabbccccddeXaaffggbXcchhffccbbcX hhiieeffjjkkXXXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,17,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111000101110111 11011101110011 001010101110111 111100100010001 101010101011101 11100101010001 101110101011101 101000100010001 101010101110001 101011111010001 1010101000101011 1110101000101000 101010101111101 11100101011101 101010101010101 1101010110001 101000110010101 001001000010101 11101000010101 01010101010010 111010101110101 01010101110001 111110101000111 10111011110101 001010101010101 11010100010001 101010101110101 101010101010001 001010101100001 101100100110001 10100010001001 011010101010110 101010101010001 101010101010111 101100100010001 011101010101001 1011101010011001 001000101010101 101010100010001 101000101010001 10101111010101 10100101111111 001010101110101 101011101110111 010001011100101 001010101110001 001010101011111 101100100010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 869
- Average number of words per stanza: 156
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- 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; of, that, where, i, it, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i'm is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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