This is an analysis of the poem Una that begins with:
In the whole wide world there was but one,
Others for others, but she was mine, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa aba bcb cdc dbd bbb bdb deX efe fbf bbbXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 001111111 101101111 011100101 0011111001 100111001 1110110101 1100100111 010101111 110011101 1110010101 010011101 110101111 111111011 111101111 101100101 11011100 110100101 111101101 0010010111 0011100101 11111111 00101011011 011101101 011101111 0101100111 01110111 1010011101 110011101 110011101 1111111111 0010011101 0111101001 010100111 1110100101 110100111
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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 author used the same word of at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Una;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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