This is an analysis of the poem When, if Ever that begins with:
When blood is water; when the call of spring
Falls dully on my ears; when everything...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXXccddXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11010101001 1101111101 0111010101 11010101001 0101010101 0101110011 1111110101 1101110101 1101010101 1111010111 1111110111 111100111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 508
- Average number of words per stanza: 105
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; when, and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
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