This is an analysis of the poem Time And Life that begins with:
I.
Time, thy name is sorrow, says the stricken... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: X abXB bab abaB X cXcD dcdXcdcD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,3,4,1,4,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1110101010 101110101 1010111100 111 101011111 1011111110 111110111 10101101110 101010111 1111101010 111 1 1110101110 111010110 1010110110 111 101010111 10010101110 11100101001 1100101110 111110111 10100101010 111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 109
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; and is repeated.
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