This is an analysis of the poem The Little Land that begins with:
When at home alone I sit
And am very tired of it, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddbbeecbcb ffccaaaXececcc eeccaaggaa aabbhhffhh hhddbbiiccccgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,14,10,10,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111 11101000 1110111 0110101 0110101 0010101 0010101 1010101 1010111 1011101 1011101 1011101 1010101 1010 11000101 1110 0110011 1110111 1010101 1011101 10010011 1011101 1100101 1010110 1110101 111 1010101 001 1011101 1011111 1110111 1100101 1011101 1110111 1010111 1011111 1010101 1010111 1111101 1011101 1010101 1010100 1010101 1110001 1110101 1110100 1110101 1110111 1111111 1111101 1111101 1011111 111111 1111111 1110111 1011101 1011111 11010101 111 1110 010100111 01000101 11110101 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 379
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; to, and, great are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, where, and, great, a are repeated.
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- summary of The Little Land;
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- idea of the verse;
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- critical appreciation.
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