This is an analysis of the poem What Was The Place that begins with:
I wonder what was the place where I was last night,
All around me were half-slaughtered victims of love, tossing about in agony....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110111111 10110110100110010100 110110100101111011 10010100010010 101101001010011001 1101010010111011010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 407
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 67 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; like is repeated.
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