This is an analysis of the poem The Lonely Land that begins with:
A RIVER binds the lonely land,
A river like a silver band,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabbbcccdddeefgXgeeeeefeeehhhaaadddeeeiiibbbccceeeffXiii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 57,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 01010101 01110101 00011101 11010101 10110101 01111101 01011101 11010101 11110101 11110111 01011101 11011101 111100101 01110111 10010101 100011100 11010101 010101101 11010111 11010101 11010111 11010101 10110001 11010111 011101001 1001011 110111010 100101110 110101110 10110101 11010101 11110001 101101101 01010101 010011001 10011101 01110111 10010101 11110111 11011101 11111101 11011101 10011001 10001111 10011101 100011101 110011101 11110101 10010111 100010111 11110111 11000111 011001001 01010111 11111111 11010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2001
- Average number of words per stanza: 380
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; no, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, no, and are repeated.
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