This is an analysis of the poem Unkind Times that begins with:
We are living in unkind times,
Too realistic....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCAbCdC AeeXaa ACACCBA ACACCBA ABCAbCdC AcecX AFAFEA AFAFEA ccbA ccbA GAGeGAGXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,7,7,8,5,6,6,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100011 11010 111101 111 010 101011101 1111010101 001 11100011 1110 111101101 1100101010101 0101010 01001010 1101010101 01 101011111 01 1001 1111101 011101 1101010101 01 101011111 01 1001 1111101 011101 11100011 11010 111101 111 010 101011101 1111010101 001 1101010101 001 00101010001 101 11000100011101 11100011 11001 11100011 101 1101010 10100010 11100011 11001 11100011 101 1101010 10100010 0111 11111 01111 01011 10111 10111 101111 01011 001 01011 001 1011001 01 01011 01 01 11
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same words we, and 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 fight is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words attitudes, divisions, times at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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