This is an analysis of the poem The Wanderlust that begins with:
The Wanderlust has lured me to the seven lonely seas,
Has dumped me on the tailing-piles of dearth;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacac ccadeeD fcfcadad ccadggD dededhah ddadiiD hahajdjd kkadjjD cicidijjiXaaidddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,8,7,8,7,8,7,17,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01011110010101 1111010101 010111010010101 1110010101 11001101010101 0101110101 01110101010111 11101010101 1010010110 1010110111 10100100101 11111111 10101001 111001 00111 010111110101010 10101010101 1010111110101010 1101010001 11100111111101 0111010111 11111111010001 0101111100 1111100111 1111100111 10101100101 10100111 111001 111001 00111 01011110110011 1111110101 01110101111101 1101010111 101010100010111 0111011011 1111101001111010 10101011101 1010100100 1010100100 11101100101 10100111 101101 111001 00111 01011110010101 1101010101 11011100010001 1111010101 11010100010001 11101010101 101010111100111 11101010111 1111100111 1111111111 11101100101 00101101 111001 111001 00111 01010111010101 1111111101 01010111010101 1101010011 11110111100101 1011001111 10101111 10101111 10101010101 1111110101 1111110101 111011001011 10100111 111001 111011 10111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 339
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 76
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; has, me, of, by, to, that, i, heart, land are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, by, i've are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it, me are repeated).
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