This is an analysis of the poem It's been a long time that begins with:
NOTES FROM THE REVOLUTION
During the beat of this story you may find other beats. I mean...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a aab cdd XXdXb caX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,3,5,3,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001010 1001001011110111 01111011111110110 010101010100100 0010111001110111 10010010001001 001001 01110111111000 00110001111011111 0110111010011011 1111010110110001 0100 1111010110111 0111011111101 11101011 11100111101111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, mean, it, to, you, my, long, shadows are repeated.
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