This is an analysis of the poem How Long Had It Been There that begins with:
It would only have taken minutes,
To sit and listen....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcdcc dcbbbdd X a XdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,1,1,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011011010 01110 101010110010 111101100101 100101010111 01011101 0101101111 1111001 1101101 01111 011101 0001010101010 10100100001 10110101111 10111 10 1 11100101 01110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; to is repeated.
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- summary of How Long Had It Been There;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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