This is an analysis of the poem 25 Minutes To Go that begins with:
They're buildin' the gallows outside my cell.
I got 25 minutes to go. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab ab ab ab cb c b Xb db db dX eb eb ab Xb fb fb db db gb gb eb eb db db Xb X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,1,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100101111 1111001 101101001 1111001 1111111111 11001 11111111111 1111001 11100100111 111001 111101011101 11111001 101011110111 11001 11001111001 1111001 101100100111 10101 1111100111 1111001 111011101111 11001 1101110111111 1111001 11110110111 011001 1110011010111 11111001 1110010111 1111001 1010010111 11111001 010101010111 0111001 10101010101 11111001 11010101000101 0111001 110111111111 11111001 1011101111001 111001 101101111 11111001 1110101101 111001 10111010101 11111001 111010101 110101 110101111
- Amount of stanzas: 27
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 69
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; minutes, to, i, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word go at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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