This is an analysis of the poem The Hour-Glass that begins with:
That hour-glass which there you see
With water fill'd, sirs, credit me,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXccddbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 01011101 01011111 11011000 11111111 011000101 10010101 1100100100 11010111 11011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 336
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 10
- 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.
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- summary of The Hour-Glass;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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