This is an analysis of the poem Light Years From The Others that begins with:
Your touch...
Light years from the others....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Aba Xcdd beX ffX AbX dbdcXeffb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,3,3,3,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 100010 11101 01011 1101000100 01111101 1111010 101011100 110101111 00010 110111 110111101101 1011 11 010010010 1101111110 110100010 1111010 111110 1 100110100 11101010 111010 0111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 94
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.
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- summary of Light Years From The Others;
- central theme;
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- history of its creation;
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