This is an analysis of the poem The Burden Of Time that begins with:
Before the seas and mountains were brought forth,
I reigned. I hung the universe in space,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efeX gbgb Xhfh hchc hchc ifiX hbhb hXhf cece gcgc hhhh cjcj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101110011 1111010101 1111010111 1101011111 1101010011 1101010011 11010110101 0100011101 1101110101 1001010111 1101010011 11011101010 1101010111 1101010101 11111100101 1101011101 11010101010 0101110111 0101110101 1111000101 1101010101 11001010111 11010101001 0111010101 0101110111 1101010001 0111010101 110000100111 1111000101 1101000100 1111011101 100010001000 1101110001 1111011101 1111010101 1101110101 0101110101 1101010010 1111011111 1001100101 0111010101 1111111101 1001010101 1011011111 1100110101 1101111101 1111011111 0101010111 1111111111 1011011101 0111011001 1101110111 1101110111 1111010101 1111010111 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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, i, one are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Burden Of Time;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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