This is an analysis of the poem The Change that begins with:
She leaned out into the soft June weather,
With her long loose tresses the night breeze played; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XcXc aXaX dede fgfg cacaXfcfc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110001110 0011100111 010111011010 1101110111 110011010010 1111110101 111011110 110111001 111101010 11100011 11101001010 111111011 01110001010 100110101 1001101110 010011111 011101010 111011101 11001011010 1101110111 0111101110 0111101010 11101001110 00101001010 0101101010 1101110111 1001101110 11011111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, a are repeated.
The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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