This is an analysis of the poem Having To Live In The Country that begins with:
Back once again in wild, wet Monaghan
Exiled from thought and feeling, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcadaXaddeaXcd XccebaXXcecX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011100 1101110 0101001 00100100010000 110111010 111111110010 000010011010 1011010100101 111101000 1000111001010 1101001110101 111010 110111010100100 1011010001 101001100 10111001 011110 11111101 1111011101110 101010010 101110101001010 10001000001100100 011111011010 10010100100 1110011 11101011001111011 11101011111111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 589
- Average number of words per stanza: 103
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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