This is an analysis of the poem Behind The Times Of Those Times Changed that begins with:
You have made the natural act of expressing it,
An impossibility....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbc bdbddd ceXfe Xgdbhc hX fbcdha XfedgdgX Xa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,5,6,2,6,8,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110100100100 1010100 10110010000100 11010001 11100011010100 10010101 0001100 1011100010 0101000111 1001010 10110111 011001 11011010001010 1110 011011001 1000100 1101011 1010 1110011010100 1100001 01010101 1101 0010001101100 100110 00100100 1111010 1100010 101000110100 0100 11 110 01001011001010 0111001 001000101 01010111 0111 11010110101 1010001 110100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; times is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word behind is repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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