This is an analysis of It Was Not Once by Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev.
It was not only once, it will go this way,
In our fight, which is deaf and destroying:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab XcXc
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,
- Metre: 01110100101 0111011010 101001101101 0011011010 11101101001 1110011110 0010100101 1010011010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 8
Repeated words/phrases
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