This is an analysis of the poem In The Village Of My Ancestors that begins with:

Someone embraces me
Someone looks at me with the eyes of a wolf...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXX ab XcX XXX cdXdcb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,3,3,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110101 11111001001 111101 1111110 10111 1111001001 0111110 010001 01111001100 11100 11111 0101110 11110 0010011 1101011 111011 01100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 76
  • Average number of words per stanza: 16
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; someone, with are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word someone is repeated.

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