This is an analysis of the poem Time That's Given To You Quickly Goes that begins with:
Speeding up to catch on fast,
What has long slipped from your grasp......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCD AAeafBaFeGeEeG AAeEeGfBaFXABCDfBaFeGegeg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,14,25,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111 1111011 011011 011011 111100010101 1111101011 1 10111111 1 10111111 1 111001001 1 111001101 1 11111011 1 111001101 111100010101 1111101011 1 11111011 1 111001101 1 10111111 1 111001001 1010111 1111011 011011 011011 1 10111111 1 111001001 1 111001101 1 101000101 1 11101011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; you, to are repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Time That's Given To You Quickly Goes;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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