This is an analysis of the poem Tempora Mutantur that begins with:
Letters, letters, letters, letters!
Some that please and some that bore,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaaab Xcddc Xeaaae ceXXce cfXXcX deddde abaaab dgdddg hfXXhf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010 1111111 11101010 1010010 11101010 1010101 10101110 1010101 10100110 1010010 1010101 1010110 1010101 11101110 10100010 10100010 1111101 11111010 10100111 10101000 10101000 11111010 00100001 11111110 0010101 101010100 101011100 00101010 1010000 10111010 1111101 00111010 00101010 10001110 1010101 11100110 1111101 10101010 11101010 10101100 1110001 10101010 0011101 00101010 11101110 10101010 1010011 10100010 1110101 00101000 11111000 00101010 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; letters, some, that, one, and, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words some, one, for, i'm, bills, news are repeated.
The author used the same words one, time, and 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 fetters, tailor, noses, execrated, gartered, rover, forces, taper, uncomplaining are repeated).
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- summary of Tempora Mutantur;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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