This is an analysis of the poem Places that begins with:
PLACES I love come back to me like music,
Hush me and heal me when I am very tired;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXbXdXdedcfXfdfaXXgeg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111101110 111111111010 1101111010 0010101011010 1111010010010 110110011010 110110101110 01111001110111 011010001010 101110000111 110101011101011 00101101111001 10010111010 010101011011 0110101101 001001010111 011110011010 1100101101 10111101110 11011011100 0011100101010 010101010111 1111011101010 11101101011001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1156
- Average number of words per stanza: 220
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; me, i, and are repeated.
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