This is an analysis of the poem Visitors from Abroad that begins with:
Sometime after I had entered
that time of life...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdef babc aaf X aega hiib cgb X hjf ahh aj X cfX bi dbi cbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,4,3,1,4,4,3,1,3,3,2,1,3,2,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101110 1101 10010010010 110010010001 0110111 1101101 11001001 1101100101 0101 1100101110 10100 111010111 11011010101 11010110101 1 1101101001 1011110111 01001011 11010111 111111110 1001001101100100110 11100111000110 10101101 1111111001 1110111101 1011101101010 1 011101 1010100101 1011000101 110011010101 01010111101 10101111 110111011101 10011110000101 1 1101110 00101101010101 010101111001 110101 01110100100 110110 1110101 1100110110 1110010001 101011 10101010
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 106
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, rang, i, night, its are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines dead is repeated).
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- summary of Visitors from Abroad;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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