This is an analysis of the poem Chasing Behind What Has Gone that begins with:
No time is there left for you to take,
To waste procrastinating which way......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXX XabBA BA BA Xa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111101 010101011 011100101 10101101 1110101101 11110100101 1110111100 010001101 111100101 11001111 111100101 11001111 111100101 11001111 10001 10111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The author used the same word those at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word gone at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- idea of the verse;
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