This is an analysis of the poem A Time To Talk that begins with:
When a friend calls to me from the road
And slows his horse to a meaning walk, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXcbaddc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101001 110100101 11111101 11011101 110111100 111100101 111100101 1111111 111110011 101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 360
- Average number of words per stanza: 77
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of A Time To Talk;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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