This is an analysis of the poem The Return that begins with:
Peace is declared, and I return
To 'Ackneystadt, but not the same;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcaca DDEe fafacXCG hihXdjXj fefeakak aeaeckck dXXcaeae cXCGiaiXXDDEe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,8,8,8,8,8,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011101 01001101 110101111 01110001 10111100 11110101 110101001 11010101 11011101 11010011 11010111 111110111 01110111 110011001 11011101 01110111 11010111 11011101 01011001 01000101 10111111 11011101 10110111 11010100 10110111 01000100 10110101 11111111 10110111 11111111 11011101 11010101 110100101 11111101 01111101 11111111 01110101 01111111 01010111 10111111 10111111 111111001 11110111 11011111 10110000 01010110 110111000 100101001 11111111 11111111 11110101 11010101 11010111 11011101 01011001 01000101 11011101 01010101 11111101 110101000 11011101 11010011 11010111 111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, england, my, it, an' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, an', so are repeated.
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