This is an analysis of the poem Speeding Too Rapidly To Limit Or Condense that begins with:

So many are wishing to live a yesterday gone.
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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXdc XXacdb XXeebcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101100101011 101001001 1100101001 010010100010 101010101000 101100010101 11001011010 100011101001 1100010100010 0010010011101 01110110100 101010101 101101010001 11111010100 11101010101 111100001111 0100011110010110 1010101 11001001110
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 275
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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.

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