This is an analysis of the poem Nothing Stays Put that begins with:
In memory of Father Flye, 1884-1985
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abcdefabbdXg adXXhXXdgiaa aieeieXXdjia idcfXejhd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,12,12,12,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100010111 01110011101 01000100001 1010101001 11001010110 1100111010 1111001 10010010 0100100100 11110011101 11010111010 1111000110 11000110 001001010101 0110011011001 101111101010 101001010110 01101100111 011011100010 100100100101100 1101011001010 1111100001001110 00111110100101 100101000011010 1101101101100 01000111000010 11010010110 011101001011 0111101001 011010011010010 110101110010010 1111010101010 101111011011 010101110110 1001010011100 011111010001 10100111000100 1100111101 11100100110010 1110101101011010 010100010101101 0011000110 000100110111 101101001 111111 10010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 428
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, from, of, by, and, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Nothing Stays Put;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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