This is an analysis of the poem Your Time's Comin' that begins with:
I knew that she belonged to someone else at the time,
But lonesome-lookin' women are a weakness of mine;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabbXXXX aabbbbXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1111010111101 1101010101001 111111010111010 1110111011111010 1111110111001 111111001 11111001101100 1110101001 11110101 1111101 11010101010 11111110 11111110 1010101010 11100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 227
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, to, he, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).
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- summary of Your Time's Comin';
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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