This is an analysis of the poem The Wanderer Looking Into Other Homes that begins with:
A LONE, wayfaring wretch I saw, who stood
Wearily pausing by the wicket gate; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbbbb XacadedX fcfcgbgb Xeaeaaaa dbdbhihi fjfjeheh ececdcdcXhbhbfcfc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0110011111 1001010101 1001110101 010001001001 11010101011 1011110101 1101001111 0111001101 1111110111 10110011101 1011010111 1100010101 1111010111 10110010111 1101110111 1101011111 1011110011 1101010101 1011111111 1101010101 11010101010 1111011101 10111101110 10110010101 10110101110 1111011101 0111010101 1111111101 10110010111 1011010101 1001010101 0101010101 1101110101 0101110101 11010011001 1101010111 1101110101 110110100101 0101010101 1001011101 10011011101 1010010101 11010100101 1011110111 1100010101 0101001101 1011011111 1001010101 1101111111 1111011101 11111010101 0111010101 0111010101 01010101010 0101011101 10110101010 11000011101 01110010101 1101010111 1011111101 0101011101 1101011100 1101110101 1111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 365
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; had, his, her, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words where, and are repeated.
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