Time To Get Up by Madison Julius Cawein: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Time To Get Up that begins with:

There's nothing to do in the morning but stew,
Till it's time to get up and dress;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbCbdd X XXeXff X XbXgee X cdXddX dXAgCgdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,1,6,1,6,1,6,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001001011 10101111 1111001011 111111 1010111111 11111011010 1 11011010100 1101000 110110110110 1100011 11101100101 1100100101 1 111111101 1101011 1010101001 0110111 10100101001 11011011011 1 111111001 0101111 0110111111 1111011 111111101 11001001011 1 11001001011 0100101 1111001011 01001001 10101111011 1101111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, my, of, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words till, my are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

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