This is an analysis of the poem Inland that begins with:
People that build their houses inland,
People that buy a plot of ground...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaba XXbb aaXa XbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111011 10110101 110111011 100111001 0101001010 1010100100 111111111 11100111 100111010 100110101 1111111110 10101111 100101110 10010101 1001111100 11100111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word people is repeated.
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