This is an analysis of the poem The Nostomaniac that begins with:
On the ragged edge of the world I'll roam,
And the home of the wolf shall be my home,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb cdcdefef gfgfeded hehebhbh fafagigi hjhjhihi hghggfgX hdhdadad gdgdhdhdXddbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010100111 1010011011 1010110101 010111111 010010010101011010 1110000111101111 10100111011011110 1011010100101 100100100101101 1111111101111111 110101100100101 111001011010100101 10110100111101 110111100100101 1101111111101 1011110101101 11111101111111 11110111011111101 111010110101101 10011100111001 10100100101101011 1101010100111101 10010010101101 1011010000101 10011010111011 1111010101111 1110111100111 1101001011100101 1111110111001 11100101101001 100111010100101 1001010101001 1001010100101 1010011110101001 1011110101001 11111010111001 1111010111101 1111110110101 11010100101101 01011011101111 10011110101001 0100010100110101 111111111101 111101110011001 1111110111111 10010110100111 1110010101101 10010101001001 11111110101111 100100101000111 1111110011101 100101101101110 111100111001001 1001011010011001 11111010101111 110101010010001 10110011101111 10010110111001 100101101011111 10110011101101001 11011011111011011 1011101110101001 111100101000101 111110101001001 1101111001101001 011010100100101 1011110101101 1001110111101 10011111 110110110 100110101 10111111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 425
- Average number of words per stanza: 83
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, my, in, i'm, i, and, to, it, that, things, back, with, northland, me, give, it's, by, go are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, go are repeated.
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