This is an analysis of the poem Before Time Altered Them that begins with:
They were full of sadness at their parting.
That wasn't what they themselves wanted: it was circumstances....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXXcXXcXbaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1010101110 110110110011010 01010101100 01101111100 0111100110110 001001011000010 00101010011 1001010110110110 0110101101 01111011001 0111011010011100 0110001101011111 0100110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 654
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; had is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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