This is an analysis of the poem Time Zones that begins with:
I willed my love to dream of me last night, that we might lie
at peace, if not beneath a single sheet, under one sky....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101111111 11010101011011 11001111011010 01110011111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 234
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 4
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Time Zones;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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