This is an analysis of the poem Far Away that begins with:
Ox that I saw in my childhood, as you steamed
in the burning gold on the Nicaraguan sun,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbcX adcbdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11110111111 001011010101 110111010100 10011100111 00100101001111 101110111111 1101010101 1100110101 1101011111 11110110110 11011111111 110101000111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 281
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; of, you, and are repeated.
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