This is an analysis of the poem Rapid Are The Changes that begins with:
Rapid are the changes.
And those who have refused, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCadXdXcc ABCbbXebee aXXX e cXXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,4,1,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010 111101 01001001101 1110010 010101 1011010 1110001 0100101 1001001 010011111 101010 111101 01001001101 111001110101 001001001001 101010101 11101101001 100111110 1001111101 11010101111 10101101111 1110001 11011110001 101100010101100 101101 11100110101 11110111110 111110011100 011010101 111001011000
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 223
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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 rapid at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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