This is an analysis of the poem How It Happened that begins with:
I pray you, pardon me, Elsie,
And smile that frown away ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXded ffffXgcg deeefgeg dbXbffff adfdXhch
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110110 111101 110101101 1010101 1101110 0111111 111111111 11100001 11100010 110111 110001001 101110011 1110101101 1100101 1101011101 1110101 10111010 1101111 0111001001 0010101 10101100101 1110101 1101110111 1100101 111010011 101101001 110111001 0101001 1111110 1100101 111101111 1010101 11111110 0100101 1011111101 1111001 1111110 10101101 0101101111 1101101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 287
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i are repeated.
The author used the same words i, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of How It Happened;
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