This is an analysis of the poem Sonnets 04: Only Until This Cigarette Is Ended that begins with:
Only until this cigarette is ended,
A little moment at the end of all,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10010101010 0101010101 1101010101 100100001010 100000101010 0101110101 10011100001 010011111010 111000000101 1001011101 01010101001 0111010111 1011010001 0101100111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 566
- Average number of words per stanza: 109
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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