This is an analysis of the poem Just Once that begins with:
Just once I knew what life was for.
In Boston, quite suddenly, I understood;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbcbbXaaXXXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 11111111 01011001101 110101010 10110001 1101110100 111111010 1001110010 11101111111 101110011 110011111 110011111 11010111 1101101001 1101100010 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 589
- Average number of words per stanza: 106
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; my, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines cried is repeated).
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