This is an analysis of A Forgetful Number by Vasko Popa.
Once upon a time there was a number
Pure and round like the sun…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xaa b bba bXc cX dee d fef Xa
- Stanza lengths: 3,1,3,3,2,3,1,3,2,
- Metre: 1010111010 111101 10110101 001010001 001010101 00101001 1011101 01100001 11011001 110100 11010100 1000100 10101110101 001111110101 00111111001 1110001 11111010 01010 10101 11100
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 21
Repeated words/phrases
it, itself, they, to
Anaphora
it, and, to
Epiphora
itself, themselves