This is an analysis of the poem To Escape From Those Common Places that begins with:
Hard it is,
To esacpe from those common places....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AaaaX Aabc dcde Xbeae Xebe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,5,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100 010011010 101010110010 10101010010 0010111101 100 0011000 11000110 010100100 1110010010 0111001111 001001010010 111100111 11011 01100 101010100001 10101100 110110100 11000 1111 1110010 101111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 22
- 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:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The author used the same word hard at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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