This is an analysis of the poem Alienage that begins with:
Dear one, what do we here ?
Petal by petal falls the alien spring...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXcaddeedffdgccgaa AddhhXddibbifjjcfacahh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,22,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 111111 101101010001 0101111000 1111011101 0110001 1111110111 1101010101 11011101 110111 11010111101 1101 1001111111 0011011111 010101 10111010011 1101010101 11010111 110011111 010111 111111 010101 010101 1001011011 11100010 1101011111 111101 1101010011 1001010011 10111100 110111 1101110011 1111011101 010101 0011010101 010111 11110100101 01110101 1111000101 1111111101 1111010101 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 727
- Average number of words per stanza: 132
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
The author used the same word dear at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Alienage;
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