This is an analysis of the poem Expatriation And Nostagia that begins with:

Day and night make one forget So, tell me about my early days
And describe that period of my youth that was shaped by imagination...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbccXddXXeeafdXbXfbae
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111101111011101 1011100011111101010 1101010111 101110110 111011101010100 11110011 010110110000110110 1010011010101111001 101001101001 1111001101010 110001110011 11011001010100 001001010110001011010 100100110100011110100 1101011001 00111011101 110101101010011010 101101110111011 11100100011010100 111110010 100010011001001011 100101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1269
  • Average number of words per stanza: 239
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • 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 word and is repeated.

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  • summary of Expatriation And Nostagia;
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