This is an analysis of the poem The Future that begins with:
The future: time's excuse
to frighten us; too vast...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX Xaba Xb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101 010111 01011010 1011 1011111 1010101 00101010 010111 0101001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 78
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Future;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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- Analysis of Rememberance
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