This is an analysis of the poem If These Times Lived Did Not Exist that begins with:
May these times lived,
Be those times we now live in......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaaXbaXaaabaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111 0111110 000100 101110101 110110111 010001 111010010 10 00100010100 10100100010 0111110101 11011001 10101101001 100101010110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 478
- Average number of words per stanza: 84
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; times, to are repeated.
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- summary of If These Times Lived Did Not Exist;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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