This is an analysis of the poem Which Definitions For Them Have Changed that begins with:
Who knows what's on their minds,
Or which definitions for them have changed......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdea aaabfcdXghX hdXfgbbcc Xccae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,11,9,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 1110101011 011010100 11001110101 000101111 10100111010 1100011101 11011011 01001 11001010111 101011001 011011100111 110 001101 00010010100110010000 1110 11000110011 11101100 101100101 0101010110101 00101 11111111000 11111010001 1 110100 10111010010 110 01110111001010 111010111 11000010011010100 110110101011010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 289
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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; of, it, to are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase it connects the lines.
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- summary of Which Definitions For Them Have Changed;
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