This is an analysis of the poem To A Lady Very Well Known To The Whole Town that begins with:
Phillis, how much the times are changed,
Since in a hack the town you ranged,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaaddeeaaaaaabbffeegghhggaaeXffeebbcciicceejj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 50,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110111 10010111 1011001111 010011101 111101101 11010101 11000101 10111111 010010111 01111101 111100010 110111010 11010101 11011111 11110111 01010101 0110101 110101001 11110101 11010101 01010101 10010111 110101111 11010101 01010111 11111111 00110001 01011110 110100010 010101110 01010101 11010001 110101010 1101010100 110101001 10110101 11110111 11110101 11011101 101010101 11010101 10010101 11000111 01010011 11010101 01110111 1100011001 11110101 11110011 111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1760
- Average number of words per stanza: 315
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; you, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words since, you, your, i've, not are repeated.
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