This is an analysis of the poem Places And Men that begins with:

In Sussex here, by shingle and by sand,
Flat fields and farmsteads in their wind-blown trees, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababXXba bcddbc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 0101110111 1111001111 0101110001 1101010111 01011101010 01001101010 1011110111 11011101111 1011000111 01000101111 1111111011 0101110111 0101011101 01001111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 324
  • Average number of words per stanza: 58
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; and is repeated.

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