This is an analysis of the poem One Of Us Should Stay Faithful that begins with:
One of us should stay faithful,
To love....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCAA ABCAA XBdeBd ABCAA ABCAA AceX ABCAB AbAbXAbAA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,6,5,5,4,5,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011110 01 11001 1011110 1011010 1011110 01 11001 1011110 1011010 1111111 11 11111101 11111111011 11 11111111 1011110 01 11001 1011110 1011010 1011110 01 11001 1011110 1011010 1011110 001101 11011110 110110101101 1011110 01 11001 1011110 01 1011010 0101101 1011110 001101101 1011110 01010001 1011110 1011110
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, one, of, us, should are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word one is repeated.
The author used the same word one at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines faithful is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word grateful at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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