This is an analysis of the poem My Earlier Life that begins with:
I've been home a long time among the vast porticos,
Which the mariner sun has tinged with a million fires,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa baba XXa acc X X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010110101100 10100111001010 110100101011 10001010110011 011010010110 10100010001 1000110110 001000010010111 0111110001001 00101001010 101110110010 101110101 110101010010 011001110 0101100100 01011001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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 is repeated.
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