This is an analysis of the poem These Are Not Those Times that begins with:
These are not those times,
Anyone conscious of mind......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXXcA AdcbXeA aXfgfadgbaadXXbaeba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,19,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111 1001001 1110100 1110101 001 11111 11111 1001010001 010001010 010101 1010101 010101 11111 1111 1111 11101 1001111 110101 01 1001011 01010 110111001 0011010 100100001 111001 11010001 1101101111 101 0010010 0010001 1111001 01011000
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 291
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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 poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word these is repeated.
The author used the same word these 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 times is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word times at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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