This is an analysis of the poem The Changing Light that begins with:
The changing light
at San Francisco...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXcbaadeaafeXecegX ge X Xdfacf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,2,1,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101 11010 0101111 101 101010 0101010 0011 1101 10101 10001 10011 10101 01101011 110100110 100111 1011110 001101 01111 100111 011010 101111101 11001 11010101010 110101 10111 10 101101 0101 10001010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 299
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; light is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and 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 light is repeated).
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