This is an analysis of the poem In The States that begins with:
With half a heart I wander here
As from an age gone by... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bbbb aaaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 101111 01011100 110101 11010111 110101 101010101 110001 11111111 111101 01010111 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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