This is an analysis of the poem West Of Fanny O'Dea's that begins with:
You’ll not find the name in geography books,
It isn’t marked on the map,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXbbbX cdbdbbbX eeXebbbX XdXdffcbaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11101001001 011101 1100101100 11100110 010100101 1010011101 1010100101 101010 1011101101 10101011 010101111 01000101 1010010101 101111111 0010100101 101010 011100111 001001001 1010111101 010101 110110111 10100111 10010101 101010 10111101010 0100101 011100101 1011111 1101101110 110111111 1 1 00100100 0101010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 294
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 34
- 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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word s at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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