This is an analysis of the poem In a Foreign Country that begins with:
Have these faces come from my memory
and have these gestures touched earth, or sky?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbXXcaXbcb X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101100 111101111 00101111001 001101101 11001011111 0010101101111 1011100011 100101110101 1001110111 101111110110 111010011101 1001000111111 0101101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 288
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; i is repeated.
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