This is an analysis of the poem Sitting To Wish that begins with:
Time goes away not to stay.
Or await for anyone to witness it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABXacXdXbXbb aXXbbXdXb ABcbbXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,9,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101101 10111000100 111111110 011 1011001 0101001010010 100011101 010011001 010110011 110000111 01000100101 10101001011 1111101 11001001 010101111000 01 1101000100 01110100010 101001010001 101010 010110100 1101101 10111000100 0011001001 1011010111 10111101111 10101 00110101001 01011001111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 341
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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.
The author used the same word time at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Sitting To Wish;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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