This is an analysis of the poem No Man's Land that begins with:
If your homeland does not give you home,
Then tell me what land in the world will give you home....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbbcaadeXfgfgffa Xcgfegd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011111111 111110010111 1011011111011 01010101001100 11101011110011 1110100011 11101011101010101 1111001110001110 1101101110010 11100010011 01011111 10110101 010110011011110101001110 0110111101 11110011 11110001011111 10111010111 111001010110101 1111010110011 111111 1011010 1101011101 10100010110 101101101011011 011101001010101 10111110100011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 678
- Average number of words per stanza: 131
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; same, they, their, that, you, it, to, there are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, the, that are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines home, them, out are repeated).
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- summary of No Man's Land;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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