This is an analysis of the poem The Change that begins with:

Il sabio mude conseio: Il loco persevera.
We lov'd as friends now twenty years and more: ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXaabcddeeffggaXhhbceeXXeehh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,28,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101101101000 1111110011 1111011011 1111001101 1111110111 101111001 01000100101 0101110101 0101011011 0011011001 1101010101 0101111111 1101110101 1011010101 1111110101 1010010101 010101000 1111111101 1101101100 1011110101 0100110101 11011100001 1101111101 10011100111 1100110101 0101010011 1111111101 11101111001 1111110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 624
  • Average number of words per stanza: 110
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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, our are repeated.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of The Change;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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