This is an analysis of the poem Only A Matter Of Time that begins with:
DOWN-SLIPPING Time, sweet, swift, and shallow stream,
Here, like a boulder, lies this afternoon ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccaXXdacaX XdXbXda cbeedb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,7,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101111101 1101010101 0111011111 1011011110 1101001101 1111010111 0111111101 1101001101 100010111 1011111101 1101010011 0111110011 1111010001 01010001001 1011010101 0101000101 0111110101 1111000101 110110001 0100010101 0111010101 11010111001 1001010101 1101010101 1011110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 364
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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, your are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase now connects the lines.
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- summary of Only A Matter Of Time;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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