This is an analysis of the poem The Land Of The Exile that begins with:

Mother, the light has grown grey in the sky; I do not know what
the time is....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbXcbdbdebeacfXXghgiXhhXXdbdhcddhibXecafb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 42,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100111100111111 010 101101111110100 1001101 11111011101011 110100100001010 011001110010101 011001001001 101101010110001 0111101 101011011010011 1110111010101110 1010011001111101 010010000101 100101010111010 110010011 1111010101111 010110100111000 1010101101100101 1010010010010100 111011101011111 110100100 1101011110101011 00101001101110100 1001011010001010 0110110 10100111001011 10111010101110100 01010010101100111 1001111101001000 0101 1100011101010101 1111001010101 010111110001011 11110111100101 1100101 101111111011111 011101 111111111101111 1101 11101111010100 100001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2245
  • Average number of words per stanza: 434
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, of, in, what, i, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is is repeated).

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  • summary of The Land Of The Exile;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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