This is an analysis of the poem Once Before that begins with:
Sole she sat beside her window,
Hearing only rain-drops pour,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaXXba XccddaX deeXbaa eaaeeaXXbaabbaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010 1010111 1010101 111010100 100011000 1110 1010101 111010100 1010101 1110111 101010010 10111110 1101101 101010 1111110 11111010 11100110 11111110 10101110 1010101 10101 11101010 1111001 1110111 10111010 11111110 1111001 1110101 00111010 1110101 1111001 01101010 01101010 1101101 0110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.
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