This is an analysis of the poem Going Away that begins with:
Walking to-day on the Common,
I heard a stranger say... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXdaea cbXbfgag ceeedbXX cdedabfX cbaXXede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011010 110101 001111011 1111110011 11101110 1101001 10101010 110101 11111111 11101001 10111110 11011001 11011110 1101111 01111110 010111 1111110 1100101 1111010 1100101 111001010 1011111 10111010 11111010 00101010 0100101 111010011 1110111 01011010 11001101 110010010 11100101 1101110 111101 1111010 001111010 1111010 0011101 1111010 0010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 255
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; would is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.
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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