This is an analysis of the poem Once Below A Time that begins with:
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Once below a time,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abbacbbXdecX fddfdddghehdXdid X jkkeie idedgd gXgegijlili
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,12,16,1,6,6,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 10101 11101010 101011 1101001 1010110 111101111 0111011010 101010010 0101101 1001010 1000101101 11101100 110010101001 11001010 010110111 1011100101 101001010 11101110 11001001111 10110110 001011001 0011010 1001101 11010101 11000010 010101010 01010110 010110 1 1101101101 01110100 1011111 10110110 11111010 101101110 011101001110 10110101011 10010010110 1111010101 1111110101 1101101101 0010101 0101000100110 01111101011 01101001001010 011011001111 10001100101 101011000101011 111011110001 1111011111 111111 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 270
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; for, of, never, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, from, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tailors is repeated).
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