This is an analysis of the poem On Returning To England that begins with:
There! once again I stand on home,
Though round me still there swirls the foam,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddcccceeffggdhiijj kkccdhllmmkknnoo llmmiijjkkmmnnccggbbddppee kkllggooiiooddllaammbbXcqqmmccggXlkkkkppaallccccffllnnmmllffmmkkdd ggdXnnooccddnneeaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,16,26,66,18,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 11111101 10010101 010100101 111111001 11110111 11010101 10111101 01010111 110101101 11111101 111111001 11010101 11001101 11010101 01000101 100100101 0100101 01111111 01001100 11010111 111000101 11010101 010001001 11010101 10110111 01010101 01110101 01011111 10000100 11111101 11011111 01001101 01010011 11000111 11010101 10010111 11011101 110100101 01001101 11111101 0100111001 11110101 11011101 11010111 10110111 111100001 11111111 110010111 10011100 11110101 010101001 01110101 01010101 010100101 01110101 010100101 111100011 01111111 10010111 01011111 110010111 111011010 011101010 01110101 111011101 10011111 01010101 01000101 11111111 11010101 10011101 11110111 010101001 11010101 10010101 11110111 110101001 11110101 11001111 01011101 11010101 11011101 11011101 11011111 110111001 11011101 11011101 011111010 11010111 01011101 11110101 11011101 10111101 01110101 11010011 11010101 11011101 101101010 11111111 11111101 11011101 11000101 11011101 110001110 110111010 11010001 10111111 11011111 01001101 11010101 01110111 11111111 11000110 11001101 01010100 10110011 11010101 11110111 01101101 10010101 010100111 11110101 01010101 11010111 01011101 110010101 10010111 11011101 01010011 11011101 11111111 11111101 01010101 11011101 010110 11110101 01110111 011100111 010011001 11010101 110101101 11010111 110010101 11010101 11010111 01010101 11011101 101110011 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1076
- Average number of words per stanza: 186
- Amount of lines: 150
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, all, to, not, more are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, to, not are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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