This is an analysis of the poem Long, Too Long, O Land! that begins with:

LONG, too long, O land,
Traveling roads all even and peaceful, you learn'd from joys and... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXXXbXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111 100111011011011 010010 111101010010010 100010111001 11001110011110 11101 1101111101111011 101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 427
  • Average number of words per stanza: 66
  • Amount of lines: 9
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; and is repeated.

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