This is an analysis of the poem To Juan At The Winter Solstice that begins with:
There is one story and one story only
That will prove worth your telling,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abcbbd edfegc hgXijf aejbhk igeejX XXXceA beXkcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110111010 1011110 101111101 0011110101 1100110 1101011100 00011111110 1111011 0111110100 10010111101 010101 1001111101 1001010101 0101010 11110110000 0101010001 1011110 1001011101 10000101010 110101 1001110101 100111101010 1100111 1001110111 10001010101 1101010 00110101101 1011010101 101111 0011010101 1101011100 0110010 1011100101 10010101110 0111010 10110111010 11010011010 1101110 0111010101 0111010101 011101 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 229
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; to, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word her is repeated.
The author used the same word or at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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