This is an analysis of the poem If Eternity Is Timeless that begins with:
What is time?
And why is it a limiting factor, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXbcdd Ab deed aXaX cc aXXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,2,4,4,2,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101 1100010010 01010 111100100 101 110100010 101 00100010 11101011000 01 100101 11001010110 10011111 101010 001111111 101110101 11111 1111111 11110101 10101 011001101000
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 88
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, to are repeated.
The author used the same word what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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