This is an analysis of the poem The Western Home that begins with:
Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam,
Where the deer and the antelope play;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb Xded cafg eaXf hgcg hhXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11101101011 101101011 11001001001 101011011 11101001001 11101001 1010010110010 101001011 11101101101 11001001 1100101011 101001001 111110001101 11101011 0101111011 11101111 11011101011 101001001 11110111111 011001001 0101101011 01011011 1110111101 01001011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; where, so are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words where, i, the are repeated.
The author used the same word oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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