Read the second stanza from "Mutability.”Or like forgotten lyres, whose dissonant strings Give various response to each varying blast, To whose frail frame no second motion brings One mood or modulation like the last.

The lyres respond differently to each changing blast, and their fragile frames cannot produce the same mood twice. This image suggests that they are easily affected by outside forces and cannot control or steady their responses. Therefore, the stanza suggests a lack of control.

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