This is an analysis of the poem Home-Sick that begins with:
O time, great Healer! canst thou still
The crying hearts that feel the knife?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcdcdd ededdafaXf gfgffdgdgg hihiiaeaee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110111 01011101 11010111 01110101 11110101 11111111 11110111 11011101 11111101 00110111 11011111 11010111 11100101 100011011 11010111 11011101 01110111 11110101 11010101 11110111 11110101 110010101 11100011 010111001 01010101 11111001 11110011 10110101 11011111 11011101 11010101 11110101 11110101 110100111 01010101 11011101 11110101 11010111 01110001 10010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 371
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nay, that are repeated.
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- summary of Home-Sick;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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