This is an analysis of the poem Dedication Poem that begins with:

Outcast from her home in Syria
In the lonely, dreary wild;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcb defe ebgb hhah bebe Xece dc fc giei dicX bfgf cjkj deke bbkb XfXf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,2,2,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110010100 0010101 10101010 1010101 11101010 1010101 11101110 1111100 10101010 1110101 10101010 1010101 00101001 1101101 10101010 1010101 1011011010 0010011 10111010 1010111 11101010 1011101 10101110 10100101 11101110 1010001 11101010 1010111 11101010 1010111 00100010 1010111 10111110 1011101 10101010 1010111 1010111 1111101 10101110 1011101 10111010 1010101 00111010 1101111 101000010 0011111 11101010 1010101 10101110 1110101 10101010 1010101 11101010 1010101 11101010 1010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • 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; her is repeated.

    The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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