This is an analysis of the poem Fulfilment that begins with:
Was there love once? I have forgotten her.
Was there grief once? Grief yet is mine. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABXb cbcb cdcd efefXABab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110100 11111101 10111111111 1111110111 1010101001 11011101 10010100101 111011101 1101010111 0101111 1010111111 1111010001 101010101110 10110101 1001000111110 1101001001 1111110100 11111101 11101001010 1111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; grief, by, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word was is repeated.
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