This is an analysis of the poem The Change that begins with:
POOR River, now thou'rt almost dry,
What Nymph, or Swain, will near thee lie? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbaaccbbdd aaeeddffffffgg ffhheecc cciiXX aaccccbbeeee jj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,8,6,12,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 11110111 11010101 11110111 01111011 11110101 11101101 10110101 11111101 01110101 10110101 11010111 0111011101 1111011111 11111111 11010001 111111001 11010111 11010111 11010001 11000101 11111101 11010101 11011101 00111111 01011111 1101111001 1101001101 11110101 11011111 11110101 01011111 10010101 01110101 10111101 11011111 11011111 10011101 00110101 11010011 1111010101 1001110101 01110110 11110111 01010101 11001111 11101101 11001101 11001101 10010101 10110101 11010111 11110101 10111101 1101010101 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 359
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words now, what, since are repeated.
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