This is an analysis of the poem Too Time Consuming that begins with:

Drop your expectations,
That I have come here to protect against insults...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABB cX deddcba Xeb XABBbac cX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,7,3,7,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111010 111110010101 1100101001 10101 1110100101000 11001 001010 111 1110101111 111101 1010001011 011011010 101110100111 000101010 111001010001 1 111010 111110010101 1100101001 1110001110 11010111011010 11110100101101 110101 111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • 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; and 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 Too Time Consuming;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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