This is an analysis of the poem Home Fires that begins with:

IN a Yiddish eating place on Rivington Street ... faces ... coffee spots ... children kicking at the night stars with bare toes from bare...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00101011100110101101010110110110 110001011001011001010 101011110101110101 101010111010010111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 390
  • Average number of words per stanza: 65
  • Amount of lines: 4
  • Average number of symbols per line: 97 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 16
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; children is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word here is repeated.

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  • summary of Home Fires;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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