This is an analysis of the poem Time Found To Reason that begins with:

Who has that time found to reason,
Why the Earth orbits and spins....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbcaDb AabaDbd AbcXdX AdebddeEBXAEBAEBDa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,6,18,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111010 1011011 1111000100 010111101 11111 11110101110 11111010 1010101 11111101 01000101 11111 11111101 010 11111010 1101101 10110100 11110100 11011 1111111011 11111010 10101 1 1011101 010101 10111 1100111111 01 1101 11111110 01 1101 11111110 01 1101 11111 1111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; and, to are repeated.

    The author used the same word who at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Time Found To Reason;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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