This is an analysis of the poem Give Us Time that begins with:
Give us,
Time to dignify our own insanities....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXAbcdaXAXXcdAXdAdaXAdaAdcXXXXXdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 33,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 10101111000 11 11100010110 1110100100100 111010 1011111 10000 11 101010 1101010100 11001 01111110 11 101010 1010011100 11 1000101 10011101 110100100 11 1110011 010110101001 11 10001110011 0011010100 00100110 1 1001111110010100 0011100 10101110 1100110010010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 447
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; of, us are repeated.
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- summary of Give Us Time;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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