This is an analysis of the poem These Times As They Are that begins with:
These times as they are,
Will never be as they are to relive again....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcacbadd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111 010011100101 11001000101 1111101101 111111 11101 11000111101 0101 11011110010 11100101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 348
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as, they are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase are connects the lines.
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- summary of These Times As They Are;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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