This is an analysis of the poem That Which Had Been Different that begins with:
Overnight...
That which had been different, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaAbcdXdX cebXa aAaeXaffX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,5,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101 1110100 00111 0010100111 1111101 00111 11010 1010 1110001 1101 10101 011111 1010110 101000101 1011110100 00111 01 110110010010101 1111000101101010 0101011000101 011110100 1110101110010 0110100101011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
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- summary of That Which Had Been Different;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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