This is an analysis of the poem If I Had 'Their' Time that begins with:
Time and again,
People say they have none of it......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abca aXcX bacX dedeXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 10111100 01111 10100010 11101 011010 10010100010010 101001 110101101011 001 01010010 00101111101 01111011100 11111 0111011000100 1010 111110101111 11111000
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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.
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- summary of If I Had 'Their' Time;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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