This is an analysis of the poem Thyrsis A Monody that begins with:

How changed is here each spot man makes or fills!
In the two Hinkseys nothing keeps the same;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbcadaad baaaabeXae fgbgbfghhd IjhjXikffl famamXhhhh dXlildlaal ndodoniXai ddadaXlhhl nfnfnnhiih cXadacdhhd lgogolXaaa lhaXXlbbbb iececiocco fhlhXfdnnd fpipifoaao chbhbclkll offffoommo ibXbhidlld hdedehaeea iiXilillll cnhnhcXddh hgfgfhabba fdfdfffllfXIi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,21,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101111111 0011010101 0101010101 1001011001 1001010101 111111 1111010101 0101011111 1111010011 1011111101 1011011101 1011010111 0101110111 0101111101 0101110101 010101 10011011101 0101011111 1111000101 1111110100 1011111001 10101101010 01110010101 11111111010 1101111101 110111 01011100010 1101010111 1101010111 1011101111 1111111101 11111111011 1001010101 1101011111 11110111100 1101001 1101110101 1111010101 0001110101 1100010101 0110011111 1111010101 1101111111 1101110101 1001010101 110110 1111111101 1101010101 0111111101 1111110101 11110010101 10110101010 0101010101 1101110101 0101110101 1111011 1111010101 0011101101 10010011101 0101100111 11100100111 1001110111 1001010111 1111110110 1100010101 110101 1011010101 1101010100 1110010101 1011101101 1101110101 1100111001 11111001011 01001011001 11110010101 110111 1101011111 1111110101 1101011111 1111001101 1011001101 11010010101 1001000111 100101111 1101000101 101101 1111010101 010001111 110110101001 11011100001 1101100101 11001010100 11011101001 11010010101 1111011101 110101 110100101001 1101111101 0101010101 1111001101 1101110100 11011111010 0011111111 10111101110 1101110101 110101 11111101000 0101000101 0111011101 111011101010 1111110011 11001010111 0111011101 1101011110 11001010100 111111 0100010101 1111110101 1100010111 11010001001 1001110101 0101010101 10011110101 1111111101 1101011101 110111 11010110101 0111010101 1001010111 1111111111 1111111101 0101010101 1101110101 1101010101 0111011101 110101 11000011111 0111010101 0111010101 11111100101 1101011111 00110010101 1101010101 0101100101 1011011111 10001 0011011001 1111010111 1111010101 1111010111 1101010101 0101100111 0101010101 10111001101 0100011111 111111 0011011111 1101111101 01011100101 1101010101 1101011101 0111010101 0110001111 1001010111 1101010101 110101 1001110101 1111010111 01001100001 1001001001 1011011101 1111010101 1101011000 1111011111 0011010101 1101001 10000110101 1101110111 1101010111 0101000101 1100010101 10010001001 00111001001 110100101 1100010111 1001001 0101010101 1101010111 11000010111 1101000101 1111111101 1011101101 0110111110 1011000101 1101010101 111111 1101011101 1111010101 10100001011 11010011111 0100110111 1010011101 0111010101 01010101001 1100110111 101101 11110101100 1001010101 11100011101 11111011010 1111011111 110001101010 1111010101 01011101110 0101110111 101101 0111010101 1110110101 1111011101 11010100101 1101001101 1111010101 1011110101 0101010111 11111111011 011111 1111110011 1101011111 11110101001 1101110111 1111111101 1101110101 1001011011 11011111001 1011010101 010111 1101110111 1101110101 1111111101 1101010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 24
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 502
  • Average number of words per stanza: 78
  • Amount of lines: 240
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, i, each, he, and, soon, she, know, gone, her, less, his, with, thee, men, gave, its, of, thou are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, he, soon, she, i, thou, if, here are repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases see, despair connect the lines.

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