This is an analysis of the poem Toward The Close that begins with:
Time grows upon us until we exhaust
Hope's possibilities, and then we die ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcXdedeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101101101 1101001111 1101110101 1111010011 1101011111 0101000111 1101011101 1011010100 1011110101 1011011101 10110101001 1100111111 1101110101 0111001101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 588
- Average number of words per stanza: 110
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we is repeated.
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