This is an analysis of the poem Signs Of The Times that begins with:
Air a-gittin' cool an' coolah,
Frost a-comin' in de night,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaXbXbXcXcXXdXXbcXXeXeXdXXXfffdfafXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101110 1010001 10111010 1010111 10100010 10011110 11101010 1111100 10101010 10101001 10101110 1011001 10101110 101011 11111110 1101101 10100110 1110111 11001011 1010110100 101001110 1110111 11101010 1111101 10101010 1110101 11101010 0110111 111010010 1011001 10111010 1111101 1010010 1010001 10101011 1011101 11101110 11100111 11111010 1111001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1367
- Average number of words per stanza: 230
- Amount of lines: 40
- 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; de, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
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