This is an analysis of the poem The Christian Tourists that begins with:

No aimless wanderers, by the fiend Unrest
Goaded from shore to shore;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaXcdcdeaeafefegbgbXgfghihihbhbfdfddfdfXgigdadXebebfafXjejekeke
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 64,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010010101 100101 1101001101 01010010 1001110011 010111 1011010101 110111 1011100111 001111 10110100101 111101 1001001101 0011001 01011101001 011101 1111010101 010101 1101110001 110111 11001010110 110001 101101101001 100101 0101000101 1000101 1101110101 110101 1111010011 111101 1101011101 010101 1101011101 011101 0111010001 110101 10011110100 0111110 1101110101 0101010 1101010010 010101 10010000100 111101 1111010011 010111 1001011101 110110 1100010101 0101001 1110010111 111101 0101010101 010001 1101110100 110110 0110000111 010101 1111010101 010101 1101010001 0100010 1111110101 0100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2293
  • Average number of words per stanza: 407
  • Amount of lines: 64
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; and, of, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, they, to are repeated.

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  • summary of The Christian Tourists;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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