This is an analysis of the poem Those Accustomed To A Change that begins with:
Those,
Accustomed to a change......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBcDce bdfddddD XddD aBcDfe aAeaAAeAdF AAeAdF aBGG aBGG aAeAdF aBGG ABGGgGXaBGG
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,4,6,10,6,4,4,6,4,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 010001 101010 0001 10010 1101 111010001 11010 0101 11111 101 10010010010 1 11010101101 1010 010 1 11010101101 1 010001 110100010 0001 1001000 01101 1 010011101 1 1010110101 11 010011101 1 10101110 1 101110111 11 010011101 1 10101110 1 101110111 1 010001 11 0111 1 010001 11 0111 1 010011101 1 10101110 1 101110111 1 010001 11 0111 11 010001 11 11 111 0111 11 010001 11 0111
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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; move, on are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words those, move are repeated.
The author used the same word those at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines on is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words pleased, got, gone at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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