This is an analysis of the poem For My Young Friends Who Are Afraid that begins with:
There is a country to cross you will
find in the corner of your eye, in...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXbbXacca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100100110 100100110 01101111 1011111 11011110110 11101110 011100111 101001111 01101001100 10111111 10111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 419
- Average number of words per stanza: 86
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- 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; for is repeated.
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