This is an analysis of the poem In The Desert that begins with:

I met the night in unfamiliar lands,
In realmless desolations, drear and far,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcadeeXafX cggXfXXgcbXedXXegX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,18,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010101 0101000111 1111110101 01110011001 1111010100 00101011101 0101011101 0110010000 0101110011 110100010101 10011000 01 1101010111 10010101001 01010100011 10011010101 1110010100 1101010101 1111001001 10001100101 01100111001 11010101001 1101011111 1101011100 11110001101 0101010001 1001010111 01010010101 010101000
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 582
  • Average number of words per stanza: 100
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • 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.

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