This is an analysis of the poem It Was Just A Little While Ago that begins with:
almost dawn
blackbirds on the telephone wire...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXXXb aXXc Xc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,4,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111 101010110 10 111101 01010 111 10101110 110010 1001 0101010 1 1110100 10
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 79
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 18 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 3
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of It Was Just A Little While Ago;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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