This is an analysis of the poem Time To Belittle that begins with:
What is so funny?
'How small minds gather with other small minds, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aaX bXXc XX XXXX bX cXX XX cXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,4,2,4,2,3,2,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110 1111001011 01010001101 111010100 01 10111 11 1111011 10110100101 1111110 1 1101 10100 10010 100 1011 10111 111111010 1111100001101 10 10011 1101001 110011 11
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 65
- Average number of words per stanza: 12
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; minds is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines minds is repeated).
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