This is an analysis of the poem To Time that begins with:
Time! on whose arbitrary wing
The varying hours must flag or fly,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdededbdbdfgfghihijbjXhkhklclcjdjd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 0100101111 110101001 11111101 11111101 11011111 11010111 11110101 11111111 010101110 11011111 111101110 00011111 11011101 11011001 01010101 110111101 011101110 01010001 011101010 01110111 11010101 11110101 11110101 11110111 11110011 11011101 01110100 11111111 01010111 111100101 11011101 111011111 01001111 110100101 11111101 11110111 11010101 11010111 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1485
- Average number of words per stanza: 272
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; to is repeated.
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- summary of To Time;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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