This is an analysis of the poem Changed Voices that begins with:
Last night the seawind was to me
A metaphor of liberty,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abca aacbXaacb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 01000100 110010101 01010100 01010001 01011101 11010101 01110100 01011111 01010111 11010101 11001100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; what, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word what is repeated.
The author used the same word to at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Changed Voices;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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