This is an analysis of the poem The Retreat. that begins with:
Against my lonely latter years
I'll build a faery home for me —...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXbcbcdedefafaagag
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110100 11010111 10110001 11000100 010101001 01010101 00101111 11111101 11110011 11010101 11110101 10010011 11010111 11011001 11010101 11011101 11111101 11001101 01011111 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 665
- Average number of words per stanza: 129
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; and is repeated.
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