This is an analysis of the poem The Welcome that begins with:
Go, let the fatted calf be kill'd;
My prodigal's come home at last,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc bdbdaa baXaee dbdbcc fbfbddXcacabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 11001111 01010101 11010101 11010111 1111010101 10110111 10110111 101111101 10010111 110010111 1101111111 11111101 0111110 10110010 11110100 11111101 0101010011 1010111 10010001 11010101 01010111 11111001 0111011101 111111001 011101 11000101 100011 010111101 10011110101 11011001 11000101 11110101 01011101 11111111 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 233
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- 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; welcome, had are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word welcome is repeated.
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- summary of The Welcome;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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