This is an analysis of the poem Unnamed Lands that begins with:
NATIONS ten thousand years before These States, and many times ten
thousand years before These States;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcaddddXXXced aXXfe cgbadddb aaXd XhfgX iiXbbachcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,5,8,4,5,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101100011111011 1000111 10100101111011111 1011111 11110110001011001 111 1100101001010110 111011010 1101010111010011000 10100110001011101 101 101011110010101101 1010 10110010111101 111111110011101011 111101 111101001001100111 1110100111011010 0 0111110111 10101000111 110110111010011 10110101110 1101111010011 10010101 101011010110100100 11011100100100 111001101 111000101000011 111101110011 01011010101 1010111001110110 0111001010101111 010001001010011111 00111011110101 1101 101111010110110100 0101101001011010 1 0110010010100010 111011011010 10110110000100101 11010101000011 10111101 10111111111000101 1
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 431
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, what, of, who, not, to, they, belong, as, some, or, in, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, some, are, i are repeated.
The author used the same word i 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 gone, of are repeated).
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- summary of Unnamed Lands;
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- idea of the verse;
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- critical appreciation.
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