This is an analysis of the poem Somethings Change, You Know? that begins with:
Are you still doing what you've been doing?
'I never think of it until I'm reminded....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a XXX baccaX Xcbcab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011010 110100010010 110010100 11111 11111 0110 111111 11101111 11110010 10000101 1 11 110101 1011 101010 11
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 102
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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- summary of Somethings Change, You Know?;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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