This is an analysis of the poem Find the Poets that begins with:
I arrived in a foreign land yesterday,
a land that has seen troubles,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcadXXeXf Ce eafg ah ada X XXe Chdd h deadb ecea gihd dag igXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,2,4,2,3,1,3,4,1,5,4,4,3,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100101101 0111110 110111 01 001110 111110111 111011100110 11001101 01101110 1011010010 110100101 1010111 01101011010 111111010 00101 1011 00110 11010111 1111101 1110001010 10110110110 11100111101010 11011010100 100010010111001 01001010010 0101001011010101 1010111 1011001111101 1011010101010 11001010 11111101010100010 111111 11111011010 101010011 01101101 10100101001 1010101 10000101110 011111101 111111110 101111010 110001100101 1101111111 110010101 010111111110 10010100110 01101010111010 111111101 01001010 010011010
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; land, of, they, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, they, till are repeated.
The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines poets is repeated).
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