This is an analysis of the poem There Is Nothing Like An Observation that begins with:
How I know today times have changed?
People no longer laugh, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: A XXb XbabXc acc AXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,6,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101111 101101 11011111 111110101 101110110 110111 1101 011011101 110110 1011111 110110100011 1111011 010001001100 11101111 1010111010 101010001010100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; have, their are repeated.
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