This is an analysis of the poem Stay Here that begins with:

Stay here!… The sun that shines in a foreign place,
Will never warm you like the sun in your own;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABCD befg aheh gaif aaXi ccca ciafXABCD
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011100101 01011101011 01101011 11111110010 11101010111 11100010 10101011101 1011011011110 1010101010 11110010 11110010 110101110 10010110101 10111001 110110011 101010101 11111101 010000101 1010001001 101011101011 101011111 1111010111 10010111101 101000100101 10101101011 0010111111 110101110101 1101011101 11011100101 01011101011 01101011 11111110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; to is repeated.

    The author used the same word everybody at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Stay Here;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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