This is an analysis of the poem Bound For Your Distant Home that begins with:

Bound for your distant home
you were leaving alien lands....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabacbcb deeebabX dedefXfd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101 10101001 011011111 111011 110111 110001 11111 100101 1111101 011001 1010101 10101100 1111101 00110101 111001011 10101000 1101101 101100 1101111 10101001 1101100 1100100 10110110 11101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 234
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.

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