This is an analysis of the poem Once that begins with:
I SET a lily long ago;
I watched it whiten in the sun;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbbaba cdddecec fgXghXhf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 11010001 11011111 110111 011101 110111 10011111 01110101 11011101 11010111 11001101 110111 011001 111101 10010111 01111111 01010111 01010111 10110111 101101 101111 1111010 11110111 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, my, lost are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Once;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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