This is an analysis of the poem It's Difficult To Abruptly Change that begins with:

It's difficult,
To abruptly change a tour through life......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbCXd Aeffda ghgeX Xidddj bCadda hXjdia aXjXaXhX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,5,6,6,6,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 0100 001010111 0111001110 011010 1110010 0100 01100110 00111 101011101 110000111010 010100100001 1100000010101 0111110110 1110100101001 101011111 110100111110 010001 100101001 1100101010101 0101110 01000101001 110011101000 0100001010111 0111001110 011010010111 101011110010 01101101010 110100101001 0100001110010 0111111101 001100 101001010101 11001010011 1100011101000 1111 1100 11110 1 11111 1100 11 11
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; to is repeated.

    The author used the same word it's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of It's Difficult To Abruptly Change;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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