This is an analysis of the poem Time's Revenges that begins with:
I've a Friend, over the sea;
I like him, but he loves me.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddaXeeccffaacXggaahheeee ccaaddaabbbbbbddiiddbbjjddkXaakkbbXff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,37,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011001 1111111 011100111 11110001 111010101 01110111 110111011 0010100101 010101101 11111100 1100100111 1111100101 00110011 11111111 111101101 100101001 1111101101 11111111 01110111 01000101 111110111 11110101 111110101 110111111 010011111 01100101 01111101 11110111 11110101 01010101 11010111 01011101 01110101 11110001 011100011 101101 11111111 01011110 111111101 1110110101 101011111 11110111 11110111 11011101 10110101 01000101 111110101 010111101 11111111 01010111 11001011 01111011 10111111 01111101 101101101 1110110 001000100 01010101 01110111 11110101 111110110 011100010 11011101 001010101 110101101 11101111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 806
- Average number of words per stanza: 158
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; i, and, my, of, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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