This is an analysis of the poem To Think Of Time that begins with:
To think of time--of all that retrospection!
To think of to-day, and the ages continued henceforward!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,2,4,2,14,3,5,2,3,4,8,8,7,8,4,4,10,3,2,11,3,6,2,3,4,7,4,5,10,8,3,3,4,2,6,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010111000 0100110100101000 11111011010 11101110 111010101001 00110001000110 001001011111010 011011001111100 1001011101101 011111011111111 011111111111 1011010011100111000 1011010011100101 011110101110 01000101101110 001010110110101100 11110 0101101101010110 111 100101101010111 01001 0101001011100100 10 010111010100010 0110101001101 011010110101010 0010010101100 010101010111 1011110010010111000 101 010101100100100 01101001101111 1011011010111111011 010111001011011010 1100001110110000 0111011010110 01101011101110100 11110011110101100 1100111 11110011111011 110111110011110 11101001 111101110111011011 10010 0101000101 0101000111010 11001 1101101011110010 1101001010101 10101111011 0111010100110100011 111100011010 100100101010100110 10101110101010 0101100 0100111011001011 010010101001 010101000110 00111111001 10100101011011 110010111101110 10010111010000110 01111011010101 10110111010011 11000101101110 10101110101110 100 101010100101111 10111001011010 1011010111101110 11101110101111 1111111111001 1 01111111110101011 11110000 0100100010110011 011111111 0111010101111010 0111101101 010100111111111 1001110100 01010001010010111 0101001 01111010 111001010111100 10 11011000101010101 1001010101010111 100 10110110101001110 1000101 110110010111110 101111111110000 111010110111 01101011011110 101 10000111001 011000111011001011 01010100 010010101100101010 010011010010 00101010111100100 10111101111 010 110110101001100 10 010001111001010 01011101101110100 111010 1111001110100110 0110 101010010110 0010011110101101 1000001011 0011110101011110 0101 1010101100011101 111101110111 01101110011001 01001010 01010110010101 01001010011100011 110010 0111101101110101 1 101011110011010101 10101100001 01001100010 010001110100010 010010100010000101 01001011010100010 010101010100010 010100101101101011 10010 11011111001001 10011011001101110 0101111001011011 110101010111001 0110110111110101 01011 01101010101101101 010101 110101111010101 0010001001001101110 00100010011011101 0101001011100010010100 1110 00100010011011100100 11100110 0010010001010111011 1 0101010110010001001 10111 010111 1111111001111010 11 11111010101010001 111 11100101010100011 11 111110111101001 0101111010011 01011101110011101 10101001 1101101000111111 111111100111001 01010 100111011 101111001111000 011011011000 0110011011000 110010110100 101011010010101 101000111011011 01 0100110011011001000 10101 10110111100110110 1111 11111110101010110101 011100010100110 100 11111010110100 10100101010100101 010100010 11101001010100010111 01001101010
- Amount of stanzas: 38
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 272
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 197
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- 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; to, of, you, nothing, that, think, not, and, upon, in, we, account, difference, or, well, be, pleasure, yourself, he, law, cannot, eluded, they, i, it, good, perfect, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, have, not, the, a, he, and, if, do, how are repeated.
The author used the same words the, to, i 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 nothing, dying, eluded, good are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases it, yourself, you connect the lines.
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