This is an analysis of the poem This 'Thing' About Time that begins with:
I have this 'thing' about time.
And those who express, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABB CDA cddebb ABB CDA fXf dXgeXABBdgd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,6,3,3,3,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011 11101 1100100 00110001001100 1101100000 10100011010 1011101 01010100010111 100101101111 10100111111 10101010101010 01001101111 1101011 11101 1100100 00110001001100 1101100000 10100011010 111010 110101101 1100101010 11101 1000010010 01011111 0010111 1101011 11101 1100100 011001 0011010 1001100101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; it is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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