This is an analysis of the poem Perhaps that begins with:
THERE was a man, once, and a woman
Whose love was so entire... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcddXefXgbGehXbhe hfXggfabcgahiiG
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111010 1111010 1110100 1100110110 1010 10111100 111110 010101010100100 10011111 1111010111 1100 1100 10111 011100 1 0011110 111100 0101 1100 11010001010 01101 101000101 1111101010 1100 1011101010101 101110 1100 1011 1111010 1111100100 111 111101 1100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 325
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 34
- 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.
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- summary of Perhaps;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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