This is an analysis of the poem Now Returned Home that begins with:
Beyond the narrows of the Inner Hebrides
We sailed the cold angry sea toward Barra, where Heaval mountain...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcddebXcXbedeXXXfggX cXeXabXXe fbdedbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,9,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010100010100 1101101011011010 110110110101001100 111011110 11111101001011011 1 1101101100010111 01110111101 110011110111011100 11010010 1101111011101010 1100110 111111110110110110 111010 01110100111001011 110101 111000100100010101 1101001011 0111110010111101 101001 10110 01011011110 10101001 010111001010111 110001110 11010100101110111 11101 10001110101101101 11001010 1101 1011 10110100100111010110 010100 1010110101101 1010101011001010 110111001001011010 0101011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 592
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; it, and, of are repeated.
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- summary of Now Returned Home;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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