This is an analysis of the poem Time And Love that begins with:
Time flies. The swift hours hurry by
And speed us on to untried ways; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaBXcXc bbbBdcdc ebeBcaca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110110101 11110011 11010101 1111 01111111 111101 11100111 1111 11011111 11011001 10011100 1111 110111001 110101 11110101 1111 11111101 11101111 11011111 1111 11111101 110111 11000101 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 257
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, love, when are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, when are repeated.
The author used the same word time at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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