This is an analysis of the poem Pleading For More Time that begins with:
I fear...
The ticking of a clock heard....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCCABCCABCCDEDBDXABCCABCCABCCDEDBD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 35,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 0100011 1101111 011 11 0100011 1101111 011 11 0100011 1101111 011 11110001 10111 11110001 00100101 101 11 0100011 1101111 011 11 0100011 1101111 011 11 0100011 1101111 011 11110001 10111 11110001 00100101 101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 399
- Average number of words per stanza: 84
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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; tick, tock, to are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tock is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word gone at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Pleading For More Time;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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