This is an analysis of the poem Wanderer that begins with:

Wanderer, far from his homeland,
You are poor and you are alone,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcc ddXc deXXXabeb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010011 11111101 101010100 00100101 1110010100 11101001 101101011 11100101 1010000101 001010101 1010000101 1111001 1011110100 00101011 011110111 01110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; you is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word tongue at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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