This is an analysis of the poem The Professional Wanderer that begins with:
When you’ve knocked about the country—been away from home for years;
When the past, by distance softened, nearly fills your eyes with tears— ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbddaabbeeddffgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010100010110 101110101011101 111010101110111 101011101110111 1010100101011101 111011101110111 101110101111101 101111100010000 111111101111111 111011101010111 101011101010101 101010111010101 101010100011101 111010101011111 110111111010011 111110111110101 101110111011111 111010101110101 101010101010101 101110111111101 101111100010011 111110101011001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1487
- Average number of words per stanza: 286
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 67 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, ll, and, it, your, to, when are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, then are repeated.
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