This is an analysis of the poem Do You Remember Once . . . that begins with:

Do you remember once, in Paris of glad faces,
The night we wandered off under the third moon's rays ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaX abcb dXXb dada eaea Xbab fefe X ccggffaagghhiiccffaagg X jcja abab gege Xdbdb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,22,1,4,4,4,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010100110 011101100111 1101011111010 1101011010101 0101110101010 100101110101 1001010101011 1100001010101 1111011101010 1101011111000 1111011111010 0011001110101 1011010100010 0111011101001 1101011111010 110101110101 1111011111110 101101011101 01110011011010 110101111101 1001010100100 111111110101 1101000111010 10000010101100 1111011111010 110101001101 1100111100110 010111111111 1 1111111111 1011110101 0100010101 1111110101 11111001001 1001010101 11011101001 0101000101 0101010111 1110011001 0111011111 0111010111 1101010101 01010100101 1111011111 0100110001 10011001011 0101010001 1111100101 0111010101 01001110111 01001011101 1 11110101010 0111111101 01000101010 1101010001 11111100010 1111011101 11111111010 11110111101 01110101010 1101110011 01010001110 1101010001 11011101110 0001011111 10010101010 1101010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 228
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 80
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, the are repeated.

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  • summary of Do You Remember Once . . .;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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