This is an analysis of the poem The Foreigner that begins with:
He walked by me with open eyes,
And wondered that I loved it so;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab c Xaca de XXe fff XX cdcd XXcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,4,2,3,3,2,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110101 11011101 01110111 01111101 01110111 1 10011101 10110101 01010101 01001101 11010111 1 11010100 11110101 01101101 11010110 01010101 1 1110111011 11111111 01011101 11110111 110010101 1 11110111 11111111 01011111 110111011
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 84
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.
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