This is an analysis of the poem Famine's Realm that begins with:

To him in whom the love of Nature has
Imperfectly supplanted the desire... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdXefaaacgXhghebaXcfeidaiXgjgaffaXacXaXafjhgkckX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 50,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101010101 01000100010 1101000111 1100010101 1101001000 010100101 0111010101 1011000101 0111010101 1101010101 0001011101 1100111001 11011000101 1011000001 1101010111 1101010001 1100111100 0101010100 0111010001 1000011001 1101010101 0101010101 0111110101 1101101100 0111111101 0101001101 0100010101 1101010101 1111000101 1111110001 1001000101 1101110111 0100100111 1100010111 1001011111 0101001100 0100010001 1001010101 1101010101 0101010101 1111010011 1100010101 1101111100 1101110101 0101100010 10010101101 1101111001 11001000111 111000101 1101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2030
  • Average number of words per stanza: 355
  • Amount of lines: 50
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; and, of, dog are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines picked is repeated).

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