This is an analysis of the poem “from, That Fair Land And Drear Land In The South” that begins with:

From, that fair land and drear land in the South,
Of which through years I do not cease to think, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd eded
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0111111001 0110111101 1101111101 1111011101 1101010101 1111110011 11001110001 1110110101 0011011111 0101010101 1011110101 1111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 272
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • 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; of is repeated.

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

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