This is an analysis of the poem I See You'Ve Travelled Some that begins with:

Wherever you may chance to be — wherever you may roam,
Far away in foreign lands; or just at home sweet home;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaabbX ccaddX eaaffX ffaeeX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01011100010111 1010101111111 0111110011111 101 0101 1111010 111010101111101 01100101110101 11110101111101 11111 00101 1111010 1011010011101 0111110111101 1001110010011111 111001 0101 1111010 11110101010111 01010101110101 010101010111011 01111 1110 1111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; you, that, and are repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of I See You'Ve Travelled Some;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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