This is an analysis of the poem When that begins with:
I dwell in the western inland,
Afar from the sounding sea, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdeXe fgcgXbcb dafaXede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001011 0100101 11101010 1100101 111111010 10110101 111011010 10100101 11111110 1110101 11101110 1100101 10111010 1011111 10111010 1011101 11001010 111101 11111010 111101 1111010 0100111 11111110 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 258
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; and, its, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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