This is an analysis of the poem There Was A Time, I Need Not Name that begins with:
There was a time, I need not name,
Since it will ne'er forgotten be,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eded fXfX gdgd bXbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 10010100 11110001 11111001 101101111 010111001 110011111 01111011 11111110 01111111 101100101 11001101 11111101 11111101 01010101 01000110 11011101 11110101 01110101 01001101 110100101 11011110 1001111010 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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