This is an analysis of the poem Lifetimes In The Chase that begins with:
The money minded have lost time.
A devotion to the acquisition of it, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDBE EBE ABCDBE EBEfbbXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,3,6,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010111 001000101000 1101 010101 11011 0100010 111111001 0110011 0101001 01010111 001000101000 1101 010101 11011 0100010 111111001 0110011 0101001 001010100 011101 11111001 110110 01110110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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.
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- summary of Lifetimes In The Chase;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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