This is an analysis of the poem In The Desert that begins with:

A cloudless sky o’erhead, and all around
The level country stretching like a sea—... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaX abab acac abab dede fbfb adad ghgh ibib
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101101101 0101010101 0111111101 0101000100 1101101101 11011011110 1111110111 1100010 1101101111 0011111011 1101010111 0111010 0111011101 0011110011 11011101001 010011 0111011101 0101010001 1011011101 01001 100110011 0101010001 1111100101 100101 1011111101 1101011100 1001011101 111101 1101011101 1011010011 1111110101 110001 1001001101 0101011101 1100010111 0111
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • 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; in is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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  • summary of In The Desert;
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