This is an analysis of the poem Too Slow To Think that begins with:
Step aside like the others,
After waking from a slumber....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABC ABc deffgg FHFGFGFIAD FGFiAD ABC FHFGFGFIAD EBECEBECEJEJEEBECJJ
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,6,10,6,3,10,19,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011010 10100010 10111001 1011010 10100010 11010101001 110100110010 1 11011101110 0111010 110101101 1110011111 1110 011111110 1110 01110111 1110 111011 11110 011101110 010101111 101101001 1110 111011 11110 01110110 010101111 101101001 1011010 10100010 10111001 1110 011111110 1110 01110111 1110 111011 11110 011101110 010101111 101101001 101 10101010 101 1010001 101 10101010 101 1010001 101 11101 101 11101 101 101 10101010 101 1010001 11101 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; to, you, been are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words step, you're are repeated.
The author used the same words step, where at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines aside, think are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word time at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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