This is an analysis of the poem For Once, Then, Something that begins with:
Others taught me with having knelt at well-curbs
Always wrong to the light, so never seeing...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabbXcXbXXbXXca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 10110101111 11100111010 10100111010 11100101010 11100101010 10100101111 11100101011 10111101010 10100101010 10100111110 10100101110 11100111010 11100111110 10100111110 10100111110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 700
- Average number of words per stanza: 129
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of For Once, Then, Something;
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- history of its creation;
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