This is an analysis of the poem It Can Never Be Too Soon that begins with:
It can never be too soon,
To get or show love....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AB BXc BDcEC BDEFC ABEFC BDABeXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,5,5,5,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110011 01111 101011 100111 00101000101 101011 1010111010 1010010 1001001 110100010 101011 1010111010 1001001 010010 110100010 0110011 01111 1001001 010010 110100010 101011 1010111010 0110011 01111 0100100001 10000001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 26
- 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:
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 love at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word unfinished at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase love connects the lines.
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- summary of It Can Never Be Too Soon;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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