This is an analysis of the poem Home From Abroad that begins with:
Far-fetched with tales of other worlds and ways,
My skin well-oiled with wines of the Levant, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb cdXd Xeae eaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010111 1111010001 11110001001 0101010101 1111011101 0111001101 0101011101 11011001001 0101011101 1101000101 1101010101010 0101010111 1111010101 11011111111 1101110101 11110101011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- history of its creation;
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