This is an analysis of the poem Spheral Change that begins with:
IN this new shade of Death, the show
Passes me still of form and face;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcdcdXefefffgXgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00110101 10110111 11110111 11011011 11110101 01011101 11011111 11110101 110000101 01011100 11011111 010101001 110110111 11111111 11111101 11010110 11111111 111111010 11110101 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 680
- Average number of words per stanza: 138
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; some, one, may are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word some is repeated.
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