This is an analysis of the poem The Land Of Illusion that begins with:
So we had come at last, my soul and I,
Into that land of shadowy plain and peak,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba X cddc X eeee X XffX a ghhg a icci X XXea X diid X gccg j Xggc a XaaX X eeXe X caac X Xffh X gjjg X ikki X chhc X cXec X liil X eiie X adXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111111111 00110100111 11011100101 11011100101 1 1111010011 0101010111 1111011101 1101010101 1 1101110101 0101010101 0101101001 1101010101 1 1111000101 1111010101 1111010111 0111110100 1 1111010111 1111011101 1101010101 110110111001 1 1101111101 1111010101 0101110101 0101010001 1 1111110100 11011001100 0101110101 1101110101 1 11001110111 1101010001 1101110101 10111110101 1 1111011001 110101110010 11010100010 1101110111 1 0101101100 01111101001 0101010101 1101001100 1 1011111101 1111110001 1101011101 1111111111 1 1011011111 1101111101 00111101110 1111110001 1 1111010001 1111010101 1101011111 1101111101 1 01110111110 0111010111 1101010111 01010010111 1 1101011100 1101011101 10101101101 0101010001 1 1111010101 1101110001 1111000101 01010010001 1 11001110111 01111100101 10010011001 1101110101 1 1111010111 0101011110 0111110101 0101011101 1 1011000111 1111011101 1010110101 0101111001 1 0111110011 1111010101 11010100101 1101010101 1 1101010101 0111010101 0101111100 0101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 41
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 92
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 144
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; and, of, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words on, the, that are repeated.
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