This is an analysis of the poem On Foreign Shores that begins with:
An erasing to escape the past eight years,
Can not be done....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccdXX abX daXda dceXe cXXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,3,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100010110 1101 101010011 111110 10100010 11010101 01000 10010 100010 1100 101011101 1111010 101010 11101 10111 1101010110 1001011001 011111001 10100110 110011101 01 1110111010 01111110 1100110101 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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.
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- summary of On Foreign Shores;
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