This is an analysis of the poem ..But A Short Time To Live that begins with:
Our little hour,—how swift it flies
When poppies flare and lilies smile; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd aXeefdfD fefegdgDXaaaafdfD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101101 11011101 11010011 10110101 01110111 010101010 01111111 11010 110101100 110111000 10011101 11011101 11011111 100101010 11110101 11010 110101101 01110111 011101001 01110101 11011111 101101010 11011101 11010 110101101 11010111 01110100 01110101 01011111 011100010 11000101 11010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 272
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, our, the are repeated.
The author used the same word our at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word hour at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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