This is an analysis of the poem To Seem The Stranger Lies My Lot, My Life that begins with:
To seem the stranger lies my lot, my life
Among strangers. Father and mother dear,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba Xcdcdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0101011111 0110101101 1011010111 1111110111 10110111111 0101011101 10110111111 1010010111111 110100111110100 0111010111 1111111011 101111101001 1111100101 10101101001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 315
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, and, i are repeated.
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