This is an analysis of the poem On Refusal Of Aid Between Nations that begins with:
Not that the earth is changing, O my God!
Nor that the seasons totter in their walk,—... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaaccadcadca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101010111 1101010011 11010010111 101010100101 1111110101 1011011111 0111110101 1101111111 10110100101 0101110101 1111011101 1111101101 1011111011 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 591
- Average number of words per stanza: 116
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; that is repeated.
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