This is an analysis of the poem I Too Was A Poet Once that begins with:
I too was a poet once O life of my words, but I cannot remember
Since I have forgotten you the love of my art too, I cannot remember...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa XX XX Xa aa Xa Xa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1110101110111110010 1110101010111110010 101100100001111 11010011011101000 00100101010001010 01010000100100001110100 10111010001010010110 101101000100010110010 10111011010110 101101010010010 11110101001000 111101110110010 0010110010100110 001000110100110010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, cannot, my, of are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines remember is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word remember at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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