This is an analysis of the poem The Widow With The Two Mites that begins with:
Here much and little shift and change,
With scale of need and time;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX bcbc dede fefe gXgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111 010111 11111101 101101 10101111 110101 11000101 011111 11110101 110101 10110101 110111 10111101 101111 11011111 111111 11101101 111001 100111001 1101001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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