This is an analysis of the poem Borderland that begins with:
I am back from up the country -- very sorry that I went --
Seeking for the Southern poets' land whereon to pitch my tent; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aAbbaacc ddeeffgg Xeeeeehh hhbbccii aaXXdd ccggiiXi aAbbXXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,6,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111010101010111 10101011100111 111010101010101 101010101011111 101100101011101 111010101010101 101111011010101 101110101011101 101111101010111 011010101010101 101010101010101 1010101011101001 101010101010101 101011101010101 10100010101010101 101010101010101 101100101010101000 00101001001111101 100001101010101001 101010101011101 111010101010101 1010101001000101 101110101010101 10110101010111 1001110101011111 111010101010111 11111010001010111 10100100001010101 101111101011101 101110101010101 101010111010101 001110110011101 101010100010111 1001010101010101 10110010101110100 001110101011001 1010010101010111 101110001110001 111110101011111 111010100010001 101011101010101 101100101010101 101000101010101 100010101011101 10100111101010010 101100101010101 111010101010111 10101011100111 111010101010101 101010101011111 101010101010100 1011101010101000 101011011110101 101110101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 511
- Average number of words per stanza: 86
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 65 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, where, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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