This is an analysis of the poem Ode To The Only Girl that begins with:

I've seen you many times in many places--
Theater, bus, train, or on the street;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaccdeedcddcff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101010 100111101 1000110101 10101010010 111110111 1111101 10011111010 10011011 0111100101 110101001110 10001011101 010111101 1101011101 1101110101 11111101101 11111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 667
  • Average number of words per stanza: 116
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; in is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines know is repeated).

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