This is an analysis of the poem Hurry Up Please It's Time that begins with:

What is death, I ask.
What is life, you ask. ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcdeeXBfbBghXijfkXbdllmblki D XhhelfX e fe ln fl ld jonlljjjffeahkna ebflbbdehpkddlagdaqbdrjdFdejjliXm eeaehsejecd elFmdodif trflfdnidefmmnndqegXfhdfhdhldaebsl nnelolntfaejdd gahbddnuednemb fi lo fh ld D nlDahDiKvfcjfrjbebndeXlhunbd ne hiilfdffX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,1,7,1,2,2,2,2,16,33,11,9,34,14,14,2,2,2,2,1,28,2,9,14,1,38,2,2,23,47,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111 10111 1101110 11110101010 1111010 100110111 010010 100010 11011111 11010100 111110111 11011111 111101001 11011110 111101 1111111 111111011 110010010 01100101 01001001010 01001010011 1101001011 11101101010 1110010101 1100111011 0101001001 01111101 10111101 110111100100 011101111 01001011 11010110110 111101100 00111101 01010101 010101010 01010101010100 001 11010 1111011101 1 1010 11010 1100100101 1 1101101 11010111 101001011 1001 11101 110011 11101 111001 1111001 11010 11100010 11101011 1110101 1101001010 111101 10100001001 1110101010 110110010 1000101 1101011010 111 111 0110010010 101011100 0101010 100101010 10101111 101 1110011 10011 101 111 1110100 0111 100001 11 011001 11 10111 0101001111 111111 111000010 11111 1111 111011 111001 01110101 11001 010110 111 11011 111110010 10001001 11010 11010 11011 111001 11111 111110 111010 01001 11 0001010 111000010 010010 111001 11011 110001 11101001001 110010 10100101 110110101 1010110 10110100 11100011100 10100011 11 0110 11111111 1111101111 110110010 10100010 01010010110 1110111011 00011101011 1110101 1111 1001 10011 100100100 11010 1110 0101001111 0110010010 0101010100010 0110011101 11000110 11101101 1101110010 110011010 111111 1111110011 1111 010010110110 1011011 11101 01010 01001 110101 1111 010010111101 111101 1110010 1101011 1101010 111001 11100 10100001001 110101 1110011 1101110 001001 1101110 0101100 11001111 01010101 11101010 11010110 11110111 1111110 1010 1011011 11010 1100010 1 111 11010 111010 1 11000011 011101111 11010111 100100111 11 1101010101 001010 11 101010101110 101 1110010 11110 1101010 11111 1111101010 11011011011 0111011 0101 1101101111 1111001 110111 11101011011 10110110111 11110110 11010100111 11010010 1101011 11111 111110 11101 11001 1101 10110 1111 1101 1110011 0111101010 11010011 0111101010 11000110 100100 10101111101 11111101110 01011111 11100 1111101 10110011101 110010110 1011101010 110111101001 1101011111010 010100110101 10111101001 01100011 011001001 011101111 101011011 111101 010110 01001 010010 100010001 010111111 110101 11010011 0101101 0101 0110001 011100001 0101010010100 101 0101 10111 101110 1100111 10111 10101 1001101 101101001 010110001 010100111 01001010 01101110 101111010 1110011 10100 1011 10101 011010010 1011100101 11 111101 1011100 1110101 11010 1101 1 0101101 1001001010 11011110 1010 01111 111 0100 111 11101 111 11100101 0110010 0011010 1011 101 010010100 101001010 111101 01011011 1101101010 11101 01001010 11011101 101 011101111 111110 1010101 10010011 111001 1001111 1111 111010010 110110 11010001 011001 111 11010010 111 10100011 1110101 111 101 101010010 11110011 10111110 1110110110 11101 0010010001 01100101110 111011 0101 01010001 11101010 001011111010 010010001 0111010 01001 101010 011011 0101101 1111 01001001 10101 101101010001 101111 11010010001 111111 01010 1101 01
  • Amount of stanzas: 36
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 285
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 356
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, wee, i, being, pond, take, toot, say, her, you, and, them, gonna, no, more, they, your, in, to, there, ask are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, and, i, the, he'll, take, toot, oh, she, say, ms, you, them, they, once, to, people, there, when are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ask, today, in are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word god at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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