This is an analysis of the poem Only To Change Your Mind that begins with:
If you have stated a fact to be known,
Only to change your mind each time....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbaXX XbXXcaXcbaca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111001001 10011111 0111110010 11 0101101010 0101001100 11101101 111010 1110100 111101 01010110111 00100110111011 111101 100010 010101001011 10100011101 11010010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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.
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