This is an analysis of the poem To Change The World Enough that begins with:
To change the world enough
you must cease to be afraid...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdeabfghiXegjXdajbjcfgXjggihcajffccj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 38,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101 1110001 001 10100111011000 11010001 01111001 10101 00011 1 0110 010110111 1101 11 11 0111 11010 011101 10101 1101 0101101011 00 0110100101 1110 1101 110101 101 111 1101 010010 01100 1101 1 11001 11001 1010 001 111010011 1011011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 775
- Average number of words per stanza: 149
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, we are repeated.
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- summary of To Change The World Enough;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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