This is an analysis of the poem A Forgetful Number that begins with:
Once upon a time there was a number
Pure and round like the sun...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaa b bba bXc cX dee d fef Xa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,1,3,3,2,3,1,3,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111010 111101 10110101 001010001 001010101 00101001 1011101 01100001 11011001 110100 11010100 1000100 10101110101 001111110101 00111111001 1110001 11111010 01010 10101 11100
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 67
- Average number of words per stanza: 12
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; it, itself, they, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, and, to are repeated.
The author used the same word it 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 itself, themselves are repeated).
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- summary of A Forgetful Number;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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