This is an analysis of the poem A Voyager's Dream Of Land that begins with:
His very heart athirst
To gaze at nature in her green array,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabcbdc ee ffee ggaaddhh aa ddggggggggii bb jjgghhiiiiff aa kkeegghhbbaaXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,2,4,8,2,12,2,12,2,15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010110 0111000101 0101111101 01010101010 1101011111 1101111101 110111011110 0101010101 1011011111 100100111101 010011101 10101100101 10100100101 10101100101 10100110101 10110110101 0010100101 101101011001 110100111 1111101111 1110110101 0111101101 1101011111 111100101 0100110111 11010110001 100100101 0010100111 0101001001 10101001010 1001001010 10101110101 110100101 101001011011 111111101 0101010101 1111110111 101100101 0100101001 0101100101 0100110101 0110110101 110110101 0100111101 00100110111 110111111 1111100101 11001001011 11011001001 0111010101 1111111101 00110101101 0011100111 0010110010111 1010101101 10110100101 1010100101 111101111 00101110101 00100110111 101110101 00111100101 1101101111 1101010101 0111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 265
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, to, of, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, they, and, to are repeated.
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- summary of A Voyager's Dream Of Land;
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