This is an analysis of the poem A Dismissing Of The Time They Get that begins with:
For those who wish were given,
More time to find....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDDE ABCDDE FEfEAEDD FEfEAEDD ABCDDE FEfEDD AEDDDDXDDDD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,8,8,6,6,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010 1101 00100 1110 1111000 1001101 1111010 1101 00100 1110 1111000 1001101 01010 11001101 0100 11001101 110001 11001101 1111010 001000111 01010 11001101 0100 11001101 110001 11001101 1111010 001000111 1111010 1101 00100 1110 1111000 1001101 01010 11001101 0100 11001101 1111010 001000111 110001 11001101 1111010 001000111 1111010 001000111 111010 111010 111010001000111 111010001000111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, nobody, admits are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word nobody is repeated.
The author used the same words for, specific at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it, get are repeated).
The poet repeated the same words time, get at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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