This is an analysis of the poem The Land Of The Gone-Away Souls that begins with:

Oh! that is a beautiful land, I wis,
The land of the Gone-away Souls.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abacbc bcbdcd cecded cfcgfg Xbcbbcb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100100111 01001011 10100101110 1000111 01010101 1111111 1100110101 11111011 110101101 0100111 110110111 1111001 1100100101 1100111 1110100101 1010101 111110101 111101 100100101 11101011 1100101111 00100101 1100101101 1111101 1010010101 11100111 11011001011 1010101 1011110101 1011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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, of are repeated.

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