This is an analysis of the poem Time Of Disturbance that begins with:
The best is, in war or faction or ordinary vindictive
life, not to take sides....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXX ccdX dbXda dXeedX Xd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,6,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100111011010010 11011 101101001001000 10111101010 10111000010101 101110111111 1010010001010101 1010001001 111110110111 0111111111 10101011110110 111110110101 1 1111011101010 10101111011 010 0010001011010010 011111000101 01 01011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; or, it, better, to, strike are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines better is repeated).
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- summary of Time Of Disturbance;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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