This is an analysis of the poem One Year After that begins with:

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Not once in all our days of poignant love, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a baabbaXbcdcdcd X effeeffegegege
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,1,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 1101110101 0101010101 1101010101 1111010101 0100110101 0101010001 1111010100 0101110111 11010101101 0111010101 1101110011 1001010101 1101010111 1111101111 1 010101101 1111010001 0101010101 1101010111 11011100101 1101011101 1011000111 1101010111 1101111111 1101001111 1101010101 1111010001 1101010011 11000011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 295
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; of, no are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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