This is an analysis of the poem At This Moment Of Time that begins with:
Some who are uncertain compel me. They fear
The Ace of Spades. They fear...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbXcdcXeaXe XbadfXfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101001111 010111 1101001000100 100101101 0111011101 1010110 10010010101 10010101010 1001001110 101110110010 110011001 01001001111011 110110 0110110011 110101001101 01111011 010110110011 11011111 0111001010 110101111 111111011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 434
- Average number of words per stanza: 77
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines fear is repeated).
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