This is an analysis of the poem The Lure That Failed that begins with:

I know a wonderful land, I said,
Where the skies are always blue,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeaeafgfghdhdidiXbfbfdadX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110100111 1011111 1110110101 1101101 1101110101 10110101 110110101 0100101 0101101001 1110101 110011101 00100101 110011101 1100101 100010101 0100101 1110110111 1100101 110100101 00100101 1110111001 1101111 1010111111 0110111 1100110101 00100111 110010101 0101101 111110101 00110101 111111101 11110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1116
  • Average number of words per stanza: 226
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and, you, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words where, and are repeated.

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  • summary of The Lure That Failed;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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