This is an analysis of the poem Once that begins with:
That day her eyes were deep as night.
She had the motion of the rose, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedeff ghghbb diXiaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010111 11010001 01110101 01011111 010010001 1101010101 01110111 10010011 01011001 10111011 11001101 1100110101 110010111 11111101 01010101 10010101 10111101 1011011101 01010111 11010001 110110100 11110111 101111111 1001110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; that, my, her, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of Once;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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