This is an analysis of the poem To A Female Friend, that begins with:
RETURNING TO AMERICA.
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X ababccdedeaa efefggXhXhiijjjj kkjhjhXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,12,16,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01000100 10110111 010101 11011101 110111 10110111 11111001 10110111 011111 110010101 1001001 01111101 01011101 01111101 110101 01011101 010101 110010101 11111111 11011111 1100111 11100101 111111 0110011010 11011111 11111101 111101 0100101101 010101 11110111 010010101 10110001 110101 10011101 011101 11010110 11011111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 299
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; we is repeated.
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