This is an analysis of the poem Afar In The Desert that begins with:
Afar in the Desert I love to ride,
With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side: ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAXbccaaddXbeeeeffdddddd AAgghhiijjaaaaaa AAddccddaakk AAjiXjddbbbbfX AAbbXdXhddbbllccXbjjaaXjjddaahh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,16,12,14,31,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0100101101 00101101111 10100101100 11000111001 10100100101 00110100100 1110111111 11001101001 11001011011 1110101101 0101111111 0100101111 1110111001 100110101 01011101011 101011011001 10100110111 1011001001001 11101001011 11011101001 11101010101 10001101001 011001111011 1100100101 0100101101 00101101111 10111001001 001001001011 011110111 0101101001 110110111110 011010111010 11100111111 1110100101 1110101111 0100100101 10100110101 1010100101 0011100011 010100101 0100101101 00101101111 0101001001 10111101011 11001101001 10100110101 10111010001 1010110100011 101001011001 1010110100001 101001001010 001101101001 0100101101 00101101111 10011010101 001011110 10100101101 0110101111 10101001001 01110001001 10110101001 1101011001 101001001 111011111 11001001001 0010100110 0100101101 00101101111 0101001001 101111101 1010010110 110100101 01001001011 11101001011 101101001001 0011100101 11111111 110011101 1010101111 0010110111 0100111101 1100101001 110111001 11111101 010010101 1010110101 101010111 11010111 111011111 1011100111 1110110101 1010110101 111101101 10100100101 1100100111 1010101101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 720
- Average number of words per stanza: 128
- Amount of lines: 96
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, my, and, by, in, nor are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, by, and, which are repeated.
The author used the same word afar at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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