This is an analysis of the poem Signs Of The Times that begins with:
When mighty passions, surging, heave the depth of life's great ocean
When the people sway, like forest trees, to and fro in wild commotion... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccXd ee aaXafX gghhaXddXiijjXXhh XXkXbXfk ddllXXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,2,6,17,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101010101110 10101110101101010 101010111010011 101010100100111 1101110110101110 111111101101010 111110011000110 1110010100101101 111010111011101 101010100010101 11010101001010001 11010101110111 1110101010110010 1110101011101010 101110101010101 11010111010100 10101010110101 11010100110001 010110101010101 101010101110001 001010010001001 01001100010100 0100010111111 1110011101010101 1 101110101110011 111111101011001 10101011001010 110011001001010 101011110100101 1010101101000 001000100101110 10011000101010 010111011100100 010001010101010 010101010101110 10101010010100 1011111110111 11011101010100 1010011010101001 10101011010100 111010100101010 11001100101110 1111000101010 11110101101010 111001101110101 1101010111010 11010111101101 01101111011100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 487
- Average number of words per stanza: 85
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- 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; when, and, from, to, her, by are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, from, the, by are repeated.
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- summary of Signs Of The Times;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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