This is an analysis of the poem To Helen - 1848 that begins with:
I saw thee once- once only- years ago:
I must not say how many- but not many. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXcbdecXFbXFegXcfh bhbfbefbee bffffaffifcXfjejk befecbgfkXbddjabiXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,10,17,19,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111110001 11111101110 0100111101 011011111110 100101111110 11010010101 0101100110 010100100010 10110101010 11110101111 110100100110 1110011011 11001010101 110100100110 11110010010 111101000110 11010101001 1111010101 110100100010 111110001010 10111100111 10111101010 1111011101 010010110010 1111010111 11011111011 1111010111 1101111111 1011011101 11010101010 0101000111 01011001001 01010101001 01110101010 1001000101 1101111111 1100011011 1101011001 1110100101 11101100110 1100010111 111100101100 0111010101 1101110101 1100010101 1101010111 11000010011 1111110101 0001010101 11010101001 1101101101 1111110111 1011011111 1111111111 1101111100 1111001111 11000100110 1100011111 11010101010 11000110010 1111010101 111101001110 0011010011 110000100101 1101110100 10010000101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 723
- Average number of words per stanza: 132
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; that, but, saw, them, how, they, me, my, their, and, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, was, the, save, how, they, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines eyes, fire are repeated).
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