This is an analysis of the poem Imposing Upon A Patience Given that begins with:
Time is too precious,
To give to others to waste......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDE AXcee EFAB ABCDE EFABXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,4,5,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110 0101001 11101110 010101101 10100101010 10110 00110100101 0110101 110011 1010011010 1010100 0101000100 10010100 101010001101 10110 0101001 11101110 010101101 10100101010 1010100 0101000100 10010100 101010001101 111001001010101 001111001000100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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.
The author used the same word time at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Imposing Upon A Patience Given;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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