This is an analysis of the poem Maggie by My Side that begins with:
The land of my home is flitting,
Flitting from my view;... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdXDEDFDgcgchdiDEDFDieiehdiDc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 33,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011010 10011 01001010 10101 11110 10101 110011 10111 111101 10111 101111 10111 011010010 00101 01100110 11101 11111 100101 111110 10111 111101 10111 101111 10111 1110110 10101 1101010 10101 11010 11111 11110 10111 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 793
- Average number of words per stanza: 154
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase flitting connects the lines.
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