This is an analysis of the poem A New World that begins with:

I WHO had sought afar from earth
The faery land to meet, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef egeg fhfh dede iiii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101 010101 11100101 110111 01010111 111101 11001101 011101 011100111 010101 11010101 011101 01011111 010101 10011101 011100 11110100 010101 100101011 010101 111101001 110101 01100101 010101 10011101 111101 01010111 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; with is repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of A New World;
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  • history of its creation;
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