This is an analysis of the poem The Changeling that begins with:
Toll no bell for me, dear Father dear Mother,
Waste no sighs;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacadad adadefef agagdfXffhhhiiiii ffjjkkiibbbXllbiijjbbgg afaffdifdjmcjmdhddh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,17,23,19,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111110110 111 111101011010 110011101 1101110110 1111 10100111110 10111111 00101111110 110111 011010001110 010101001 0111001110 111110101 01001001010 1110101101 11011010010 110111111 1100101110 10110101 011110110 11101101 0100110100100 11101111 11111110 11111001 11100101 11110101 1011111 110100101 11010111 101011101 11101111 01110111 11011101 0100111001 111011100 01110101 010110111 010100101 01000101 0101000101 01010011 01100111 01110111 101100111 1011001 0010101 110010010010 111100010 1011111 11010101 111111101 10110111 10111111110 11001011010 10111110110 111101101 11011010110 1110111101 101111011 1111110 10111011101 011 101111 11001011101010 0111101011 10101110110101 110 0010101 111111101 1111111111 111111011 1111110101 11101101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 571
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 75
- 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; your, it, and, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase never connects the lines.
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- summary of The Changeling;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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