This is an analysis of the poem The Greater Love that begins with:
ONCE upon a time,
Little Golden-Head,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBabbXcdcdbbededffdXXdggcfchbbfcfcXbbcbciXcjcjkkBlblaaefehmmBibiaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 66,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101 10101 10101 11101 10001 111001 10111 11111 10111 10101 11101 10111 11011 10101 10111 10101 11101 101011 10101 10111 10101 10101 10101 10111 10101 10001 10111 111010 100111 10101 10101 10101 10101 10101 101010 10011 10101 10101 10111 11111 11101 111110 11101 10111 11101 10111 10111 11101 10101 00101 11111 11111 01101 10101 11001 11110 10100 10100 10101 10101 10101 10101 111001 11111 11101 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1474
- Average number of words per stanza: 285
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, love, of, or, oh are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words some, all, love, how, oh, by are repeated.
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- summary of The Greater Love;
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