This is an analysis of the poem Time that begins with:
Ain't the snow fallin' just a bit deeper these days
Aren't they building the stairs a bit steeper these days...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aab ccb ddb eeb cffb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101011011 1011001011011 101101001101111 011110010001 101101010011 1111101110111111 0111110101110 10111110110100 10111001011111111 101111011101 111101001101 111011001101111 111011011101 1001110101101 1110101011101 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; time, as, and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines days is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word time at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Time;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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