This is an analysis of the poem Only To One Returned that begins with:

Often, before the mortal mouth has known
What fruit the vagrant phoenixes devour...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba ccdeed
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 1001010111 11010100010 01000110010 1101010101 0101010101 10010101110 010111001010 0100010101 1100100101 1100010101 11000100111 1101011101 1101110101 11010010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 300
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; of is repeated.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Only To One Returned;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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