This is an analysis of the poem Any Time that begins with:
How long ago the day is
when at last I look at it...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbbaacXbdbcdXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 1111110 0010110 001100 1000101 0010010 0010001 1011010 1010011 0110101 0010111 1110100 1010110 1011010 0110101 0101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 433
- Average number of words per stanza: 87
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, in are repeated.
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