This is an analysis of the poem Adjustments Are Not Easy that begins with:
Adjustments are not easy to welcome.
Especially when they arrive unexpectedly, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABcc DEFG AHBH gdhh gaae AHBH XXXiiXDEFG
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101110010 0100110110100 0110110101 0100100010101101 101111000010 10101001110101 11010111101010 010101110100101 0101110010 10100001101 0100110110100 1010001110001 10010001000010 10100001100101 1111001001 110101110011 1110010001111 01011100010 0100101110110 011011011001 0101110010 10100001101 0100110110100 1010001110001 1010101101001 110101101 0111101 110101110101010 10101111101011 101111000010 10101001110101 11010111101010 010101110100101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; everyone, to, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word everyone is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase everyone connects the lines.
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