This is an analysis of the poem Temporality that begins with:
Minutes and hours and days and months and years
As life-blood flowing from a lethal wound!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba cddc XeeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10110111110 1111000101 1101110101 11010100011 1101010001 1011110101 1101000101 0100110111 1111111111 1100010101 1111010011 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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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