This is an analysis of the poem Modern Love X: But Where Began The Change that begins with:
But where began the change; and what's my crime?
The wretch condemned, who has not been arraigned, ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abXacddcbaabeffe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101011111 0101111001 11010111000 11110010111 1111111101 1100110101 1111010111 11010101001 1101010111 1101110101 1101010001 1100010001 1110110101 0101111111 0101010101 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 735
- Average number of words per stanza: 135
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; i, of, with are repeated.
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