This is an analysis of the poem Echoes that begins with:
I have returned into my land of day,
And lo! it is not light!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcddeX Fgdh hadXdd IhXjjbh XgbbF XklmaXj hdlcXdiXmehcdcCH dddddhaaddck cjdhhddhlcCH FddXdil FejdmaXd IXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,4,6,7,5,7,16,12,12,7,8,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101001101 110011 1111110001 11010010011 010111000101 11011111011 111101010100 0101 101111010101 1011101100 111101101 1001011 11110111111 01111101 00101 1110110100101 111101001001 01001001 10010101101 10011110 101100 1100 11110111101 111101 11010110 1101011 01001011010110 1101001011011 0101 111110010 00101001 11111001 1110001 101 110100 11011100010 1110110 1101110101 1111101 1110010110 1110100101011 11101011 1001011 111001011 01001110101 0011011101 11110011001 110100111010 11011101001 0011111 10011110 11010110 11010001011 11010001010 011100010010 1011010 10010101 11010111000 1101 1101 11110 111001 11111011 1100101001001 11111001 101101 10010010 1010100010001 100010010111001010 1010001010 1001110101 0101010001 111111 0011111 10011110 11010110 0101 111110110110 11101011 10100101101 0111100110101 0110111 10111001 0101 0001011101 1101011 1011001011010 11111101101 101101 10111000 1 01001001 10011110 1011
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 283
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 94
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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, them, your, i, women, and, of, new, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i are repeated.
The author used the same words while, i, australia at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines them, me are repeated).
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- summary of Echoes;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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