This is an analysis of the poem Once A Great Love that begins with:
Once a great love cut my life in two.
The first part goes on twisting...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXa Xb XXb XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,3,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111101 0111110 11101101101 0100111 111001111011 101111000101010101 110 110101111 1101011101 11110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 94
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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