This is an analysis of the poem I Once Knew A Woman that begins with:
Well now I once knew a woman listen while I tell you all about her yeah
And the first time I seen her I knew I couldn't live without her...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbb aXcdd eeXaeeXccbbebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101010111110101 1011110111101010 11111111011111101 1111110010011101001 11111010111010100011 1111101111111 111101101111 1010111011101001101 111101 111111110010101011011 10101110101110011011 111010101111110 1101101011010101 1111111111010101 111001101 11110101101111111 110100111110011 110011111111101 111101001 11010011011011 111001101111010101 111101001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 339
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, her, knew, eyes, one, think are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word hmm is repeated.
The author used the same word well 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 blue, one, boys are repeated).
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