This is an analysis of the poem Just In Seconds that begins with:
Just in seconds those kept pretentions,
Can be swept away in horrific winds....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbcddcX XXacdcabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011100 1010100101 111001 101001010011 100101001101 101110010 10000010110100010 100111110010 01101001010 11001100101 00100010100100 0011101101010 1001000100010101100 10001011011010 0110010001101 10100011010101010 1010011101000100 110100010101100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 444
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
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