This is an analysis of the poem Forsaking All Others Part 3 that begins with:

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THERE was an instant when he might have said... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bbccddeeff ggcc aaaahX ddX hbbiijX eeaaiikX XXggbblljjmmhhXc X nana ldlX X khkhkh nhnhnh X eeooaaoonnlll aaeeddhhii bbbb a bobo Xnan cece lglX a aaggaaaaffllXd X ococeaea X pipi bXbg gcgX ii X llaaaX c AAaaqqdXeeoomm rrggnnff AArlol a feefe llllgXlX gff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,10,4,6,3,7,8,16,1,4,4,1,6,6,1,13,10,4,1,4,4,4,4,1,14,1,8,1,4,4,4,2,1,6,1,14,8,6,1,5,8,7,13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1111011111 1111010101 1100010101 1101010001 0101010101 1111100101 11111111010 100011011010 1101010111 1101111101 1111101111 1111011101 01010100101 0101111101 1011110111 1111010101 1101110001 11010110111 1011011111 0111111011 1101101101 1011001111 0101101101 1101110111 1101010101 1101011101 1111010111 11011100101 0011011100 101100010010 1111110101 1101010011 0101110110 1001101111 1101110101 01001010111 10110010111 1110011101 11111101101 11110101110 1011111101 1111110001 1101110101 1101011101 1111011111 1101111101 0011011111 1011110101 0011011111 0111010101 0111010001 1100111111 110100101111 1101011101 1 110111111010 1011101010100 1111110101010 110111011111 100011101010 101010111 10001011101001 11010101101111 1 1100010 110101 1101010 111111 1100010 011101 1111010 111111 1111110 010101 1111010 010011 1 10010001 110101 110101 111101 110101 1101101 110101 101111 1011010 1110010 100101 100101 1111001 110101 110101 1011010 01001010 110101 110101 101111 011101 1000101 110101 100101 1001001 100101 100101 1 1100010111 11011111010 1111000111 0101010 1101001011 11101101010 1101011101 0111110 11001010101 10010111010 1111011101 1011110 11011110011 01010100010 1011010101 1101110 1 1111101001 10101101 11111111 001010101 1010101111 10011011 111010111 1110100101 010111111 011100101 1100100101 110111101 10111001110 111110101 1 110111010 111101001 110111010 11011101 101111010 101011111 110101010 01011111 1 1111110101 1101011101 1101110111 111111 11010111011 11111101011 1111110101 010101 1001011101 0111010101 1001010111 11011001 1011000101 0101001101 1 11011111001001 111110101001 001010011001 111010101001 110010110100 1010010110001 1 0100101001 110100111 100111101 111011001 111101101 111101101 1111111111 1011101110 11011001110 1101110010 0101001110 0101101010 1011001001 101011101 111101110 11101001010 100101010 1011011010 101111110 00101110010 110111101 10110101 0100101001 110100111 100100100 0111110111 11 1101101 1 01111101 1101100101 00101101101 100101 00100101111 0110101101 1100110101 100111101 1011100101 11010111010 1111111010 110010101 101111010 1111001010 11110100101 101101111 11011001010 1111001 101110110 1111111 01001101 1011101 1010101 1010110 10110 10110101 1111110 010101 1100110 110011 1011110 011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 44
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 230
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; he, she, that, ', you, not, and, but, i, to, for, his are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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