This is an analysis of the poem The Reply To Time that begins with:
O TIME, forgive the mournful song
That on thy pinions stole along, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeebXbbffaaffff cbgghhff iigghhjjXXffhXbbeekkcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,8,22,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 11110101 10110101 11110101 110111010 110101010 11110101 01000101 01010101 110100011 11111111 110101010 11010111 010101011 10111001 11100101 11111101 01010101 11010101 01010101 111110001 01010101 111111010 11010101 11110101 101110101 11010101 01010101 11111101 11010101 11010111 11010101 11110101 11110101 1001100101 111100101 01011101 01010101 10010101 010001110 01010101 01010101 01010101 01010100 01010101 01010101 0111110001 11110101 010001001 01110101 101001010 01001101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 629
- Average number of words per stanza: 109
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Reply To Time;
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- idea of the verse;
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