This is an analysis of the poem Those Times Passed that begins with:
Keep your focus and your mind,
On what is observed! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaab cbcXXc Xadd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1110111 11001 01010010001 11101001 10100 110101 0100011 01111101 0101100 00101001100 11111101 11100001 011101 11011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; to is repeated.
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- summary of Those Times Passed;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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