This is an analysis of the poem The Word that begins with:
There are so many things I have forgot,
That once were much to me, or that were not, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXccddaaaaeeffaaXXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111011101 1101011101 1110010101 10110001000 0101110001 11011100101 1111110011 01111111001 1111011101 1101110101 11010111111 1111010101 101101011001 1101010111 101111111001 1101100111 101111000101 1011111110 00111101100 0110001101 0110010101 10110010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 975
- Average number of words per stanza: 187
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; of, and, i are repeated.
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- summary of The Word;
- central theme;
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