This is an analysis of the poem There Was, Before Me, that begins with:
There was, before me,
Mile upon mile ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XABXXcXBXcBbXAB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 11011 1011 011101 111110110 001010010 11110100000 11001001 111 111 10101010 111 10110010 1101 1011 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 385
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
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