This is an analysis of the poem Was There A Time that begins with:
Was there a time when dancers with their fiddles
In children's circuses could stay their troubles?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbbacc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11011100110 01010011110 1101111101 1111010111 10010011101 1101010001 1001011111 1101110101 10001101111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 406
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; time, their are repeated.
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