This is an analysis of the poem Time To Waste And No Life To Live that begins with:
You don't like me?
And...? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcXXXdX XddaXab cdcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,7,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 1 0111100 1 1000100 111001 100101 1111001 00111 111110 1011 11101 101001 111000110 11 111000 11 111011011 11010101 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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 is repeated.
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- summary of Time To Waste And No Life To Live;
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- idea of the verse;
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