This is an analysis of the poem How Many Seconds In A Minute? that begins with:
How many seconds in a minute?
Sixty, and no more in it. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddXXeeffgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110100001 1011100 110100110 1011110 11010001 1011111 1101001 1010111 1101001 1101110 1101001 1010011 1100011 110101 1101001 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 456
- Average number of words per stanza: 91
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.
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