This is an analysis of the poem The Time Has Come For Us To Become Madmen In Your Chain that begins with:

The time has come for us to become madmen in your chain, to
burst our bonds and become estranged from all; ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdcebffcXgdageXhXXdeibhgXiXXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 31,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 011111001100110 1111010101 011111101001010 10110011111100010 011011110100100 111110110000101 1011 100010011110111 01110111 00101011101101010 10010010010100100 111110101001001 01110010101001010 1110111011111 111010110101001 011 1111111011111 111101111110 11 0010010011111010 01110110001101 11101 101001110011110 1110110001010101 011101011010101011 011101101001 0100111011101100 1111011011010 10 101011101100101 111101001011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1641
  • Average number of words per stanza: 321
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, our, we, of, if are repeated.

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