This is an analysis of the poem Time Has A Way Of Helping Folks Re-Evaluate Priorities that begins with:
Most people spend most of their lives,
Playing hide and seek....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcde Xa cXe dXe abeadXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,2,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011011 10111 110101101001 110110 1110110 111 11001 11011101001 1110111 1101110 1101011 1011110 11011 111101 100101 110111010 11010101 11 1111111 11010101101010100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; they, have are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Time Has A Way Of Helping Folks Re-Evaluate Priorities;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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