This is an analysis of the poem Who Am I, Without Exile? that begins with:
A stranger on the riverbank, like the river ... water
binds me to your name. Nothing brings me back from my faraway...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdXcccddA aBEfddafXXddA aBEgghhhdidgdgdi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,13,16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01010101101010 110111011101101 01111111110 11100101 01101000101 1101001010110 11010010110 101111101010110 111010111 01101111011 111010 10 11 011 101100101011 0101001111101 011011001011 0110010011000100010 11110111110 001011110111001 10001111110 0010001000110111 01101111011 111010 10 11 011 11010111110101 1101001001011 101011010101 0110010111 1101011011101 1011110001 1011101101 0101010101110 11011 1 011 01 11
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 509
- Average number of words per stanza: 97
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; not, me, nothing, we, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nothing, water, what are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word water at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase water connects the lines.
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