A Royal Home-Coming by Alfred Austin: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem A Royal Home-Coming that begins with:

Welcome, right welcome home, to these blest Isles,
Where, unforgotten, loved Victoria sleeps,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef aaaa eXeX ghgh gggg icic afaf ajaj bkbk gXgX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1011010111 11000101001 1101011101 1101 1111010101 1011010101 110101100111 1111 11110010101 0101110101 0101110101 01011 100010111001 1101010101 1101010101 0101 1011000111 11001110111 0111011101 0101 1101010101 10001110001 11110110001 11001 11111101001 110110101 11011101001 0111 110101001 11111111001 1100111001 1111 1101010101 0100110111 1101110101 1111 10011001000 1111111111 1101110111 1111 1101000001 1101110101 1001001101 0111 1101010101 1101110111 11010100101 010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • 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; hundred, from, or, and are repeated.

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