This is an analysis of the poem It Took A Long Time that begins with:
Me...
I come first....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb cddXdX ebedbaXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 111 01011 11011111 110101 0100110 111000010 10010 10010010 101011 110100110100 110010 110001011 11001 10100101101 0010101 1011011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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 poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word for is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of It Took A Long Time;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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