This is an analysis of the poem A Lost Opportunity that begins with:
One dark, dark night--it was long ago,
The air was heavy and still and warm -... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef dgdg chch ahah Xbhb gfgf idid gfgf djdjXcgcg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 111101101 011101111 010110111 011101101 1110101101 110100101 111110101 111101001 01010101 111010111 011101101 111101111 110100101 1110100101 1111111101 101110101 0110101111 111101111 110100111 1010111101 111110111 111010101 110100101 1111110101 1110110011 1111101101 011110101 111101011 111110111 110100101 111110101 010101111 1110101101 1100100101 011101111 111101101 11011111 110110111 1011110101 1010100101 101110111 1010011111 110111111 010011111 111110111 111110111 110101111 111101011
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, we, not, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, we, let are repeated.
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