This is an analysis of the poem Time that begins with:
I saw Time in his workshop carving faces;
Scattered around his tools lay, blunting griefs, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXaabbacaacaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11100111010 1001011101 1111110001 01111011010 01011101110 01011100101 1101011111 0111001010010 11111101001 1111010101 11011110101 11001011111 1101011111 01111100100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 693
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
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