This is an analysis of the poem The Old Home Calls that begins with:
Come back to me, little dancing feet that roam the wide world o'er,
I long for the lilt of your flying steps in my silent rooms once more;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaa bbcc ddcc eeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101101011101110 11101011010110111 110110101010101 11101101011111111 1101011011111001 111110111010101 010100111100001 110111111010111 1110111111110011 1101011010011111 11001111010111101 11111011101100101 111111111110101 010100111010111 101111111011011 1010110101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 273
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 68 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; come, little, back, with, my, and, from, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words come, my are repeated.
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