This is an analysis of the poem Changes Can Be Painful that begins with:
Changes can be painful.
To go through to be needed....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCD DBbXdX ABCD DBeX XX XdeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,4,4,2,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010 0110010 10101 1010001 101111 010101 1 101111 010001 00101010 101010 0110010 10101 1010001 101111 010101 1101101 1011101 10011101 110101 10 110111 1000111 1100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 97
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
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