This is an analysis of the poem First Time For Everything that begins with:
Since time has begun...
There has been the first time for everything....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcXddadcdXdXdbaXccccXbEcfcddbaEfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 35,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110 1100111101 01110 01111 01001110 01001 0101 01001 11011 101101 11 1001 1010011001 11010101 10101 11001010 01010 1111 1001110111010 100 1111101 11101 0100 1010010 010011 01001 1100001 0010 001010010 11010 0010011 11101 010011 0101111101 111111011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 897
- Average number of words per stanza: 161
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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; time, first, for, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, why are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of First Time For Everything;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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