This is an analysis of the poem The Spirit Land that begins with:
Father! thy wonders do not singly stand,
Nor far removed where feet have seldom strayed;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaaaabcbcbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1011011101 1101111101 01110100101 0101011101 0101111111 0101111101 1111011101 1011010001 1100010101 1111010101 1100101101 1101010101 1111010101 1101100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 602
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
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