This is an analysis of the poem Airmen From Overseas that begins with:
Who are these that come from the ends of the oceans,
Coming as the swallows come out of the South... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb acXc defe acfc caXaXdaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111110010010 10101011001 0010001111011 010001001101 111111001010 111100101 101110100101000 10011010111 01110101001 10010100101 101100111010 010010010101 111100100011 1010101 011101001010 110100100111 001110111010 1011010001 11100110101110 1010010110101 0101001001010 11101101001001 11110101111 1111001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; come, of, and are repeated.
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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