This is an analysis of the poem Practicing Time that begins with:
Always whenever I want to play
I've got to practice an hour a day,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcXaXdd eXffcXaadX gXeeaahhhXXddggaahhdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,21,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 110101101 1101011001 11101111 110110101 1011110111 1111110010 111101101 111100100 010110111 1111101101 1110100101 0101111010 101110101 101111011 11111111 111011010010 110011011 1111101111 1100111101 11110101111 1111100111 11101011101 1110111101 11111101101 1100100111 1110101101 1101110111 111110111 1101101101 0110101101 1111111101 111110101 111100101 110111111 111011101 11011011001 1110110111 110110101 11110111111 1010101101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 416
- Average number of words per stanza: 85
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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