This is an analysis of the poem Anywhere Out Of The World that begins with:

This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds; one man would like to
suffer in front of the stove, and...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcdceXXffXXgeXfXadfXbXgX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01001101100100010001001111110 10010011010011110100101010 0111011111100111111010001001 11010100011 11111111111010010100101111 11010010101001001011111001010 11010111010010101101101111011 110101101110111001100011 111101 1111101010001010111010010 11001001111101001111011110010 0011001111010111110011111010 10 110110 1001000111111101101010010 10010010 10111101 1011111100101001110101100111 10111100001111001111111110111 10100011001011010101010011101011 0110100101010110100111001001001 0100100111001110100111010111 01000101010111011011110010011 100 11110111011011101110111101 001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2219
  • Average number of words per stanza: 414
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • Average number of symbols per line: 84 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 16
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to, there, and, of, that, you, in, let, us are repeated.

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  • summary of Anywhere Out Of The World;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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