This is an analysis of the poem Doctor Rabelais that begins with:
Once -- it was many years ago.
In early wedded life,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBcBdaea fgggdXhX befeiieX XcechaXX bgggcihX cjXjXfef aBcBXgfg hffffghg bajafihX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110001 010101 11111101 010101 11011111 111111 11110101 010111 11011101 111101 11110111 010111 11010111 010101 11000101 11111 11010101 101101 11010101 1100001 110101011 100101 01110101 010100 11010110 110101 11001111 1111001 11010101 100101 10110101 111101 11010101 011101 11111111 110101 11010101 111111 11010101 110100 1001001 110101 11110100 110001 11010101 111101 10010001 0100001 11110001 010101 11110101 010101 11110100 111001 01010000 0100101 11111101 110101 101110101 111111 01011101 110101 11110101 110111 11110101 011001 10010101 110001 11001001 011011 01011101 110100
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 229
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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 words she, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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