This is an analysis of the poem Mutability that begins with:
When I bethink me on that speech whilere,
Of Mutability, and well it weigh:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaababb cacdXedee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1110111110 0100001101 1101110100 0011110101 0111110101 11110101110 1101110101 11011101110 1111110001010 1111111101 0111111110 1111011101 0101000100 1010010000 1111010101 1111110100 0110010101 111101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 400
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; so is repeated.
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