This is an analysis of the poem The Younger Son that begins with:
If you leave the gloom of London and you seek a glowing land,
Where all except the flag is strange and new,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd eaeafgfg aeaehihi gbgXcgcg eeeefcfc jijigege
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 011010101110101 1101010111 101110101011101 1110010111 1111010011101 0111011111 11110101111101 111010101001 101010101010001 1010010111 10101101010110 1100010111 101011101010101 1101011101 11011101110101 10101010101 10101110001111 10101010001 11010101010101 11101110101 01001100011101 0101011111 101010100011111 0101010101 01010111010101 0101110101 01100100010101 0111011010 11010101010101 0101011111 11110111110101 1101010101 11011110011101 1101010111 101110111010111 01010011001 101110100011001 0101010111 101011111010001 111110101001 101000101010001 1010010101 11010101111001 1111110101 01010101110101 1111010111 111000011110101 10101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 435
- Average number of words per stanza: 80
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you, he's, in, you've are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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