This is an analysis of the poem One Among So Many that begins with:
. . . In a dark street she met and spoke to me,
Importuning, one wet and mild March night.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccXdeXfgeeedhgXbXXgdeXhXbIgfbXacIXdhjgaXeXjXjji
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 49,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0011111101 1000111111 1111010101 1101010101 100010001010 1011100111 0101101101 10101110100 0010010111001 0100010101 1111110101 1001100111 1001010101 0100010101 1101011111 1111111111 11010111111 1111110111 0111111011 1111111110 1111101101 1111011011 1011110110 1110011111 1101111111 111011011 1101011011 11110111011 0011110001 10010010111 1111101101 1111111101 1101011101 1111110101 11110111011 1011110111 1101100101 100100110101 1001011011 0101000101 1101001111 1011110110 1101010101 1101011111 1101110011 1101111101 100100100101 1111110101 1110111011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2159
- Average number of words per stanza: 421
- Amount of lines: 49
- 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:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, well, i, ', my, she'd, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, my are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of One Among So Many;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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