This is an analysis of the poem Times Like These Wont Leave that begins with:
Oh it's amazing...
In these days and times, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBXc ABDA XbaeeX aFf aFc ABDAXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,3,3,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010 01111 1011100 00101 10010 01111 111110 0010 1 01010000110 1010010 0101000101 101011101 110101011001 10010 1101011111 001001101 00010 1101011111 00100110111 10010 01111 111110 0010 11111 0101001000111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; their is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Times Like These Wont Leave;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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