This is an analysis of the poem A Poet's Home that begins with:

HERE in this lonely rill-engirdled spot,
The world forgetting, by the world forgot,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcbc dddcdc eedfdf ggchch ggeiei jjdada Xigggg ddXkbh jjbjbj XXgaXa llemem ddajaj ddXaba ddfjfj ccfnfn oopgpg jjgmgm lldgdg pphdkd aajaja aamlmh jjjjbj jjgigiXmmajaj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1001011001 0101010101 0110100101 1101110001 1001110101 110101 1101000101 1100010101 0111010101 1101010111 1011110000 111101 1101010101 11011101001 10110100101 1111110011 0100011101 110110 1111010101 0111101101 1110101001001 10010101010 1011011101 1111010 10110000101 1101010001 1001000101 1101110101 0101010011 110001 0111110101 010110101001 1111001111 0111110011 010111101 011101 110101010100 11010101010 0101100101 11010101001 1111010101 110101 1101001101 01010101001 110011011000 0101010101 10010101001 1010100 0111010111 1011010111 01001000101 11010100101 0100010001 110101 10011111100 11110111100 0110110101 1101110001 1001110011 010101 0111000111 1101011101 0101011101 1011110111 1000010101 110111 1001110001 0101100101 1101011101 1100010101 010001011101 1101001 0101100111 100010010101 0111111100 111101111 11010111001 010101 1101111011 0101101101 01010011110 1101010101 110010011001 011101 10110111001 0101111111 1001011101 1011110101 0111000101 1100101 111010111001 1100011101 11111100001 1100101101 1101000101 0001001 1101010110 01000101010 0101010001 1111010110 1111100111 001101 111111010001 1101110111 1011010001 0111011101 10011101001 110101 0111110101 10100001 1111110110 1101111101 1111010101 100101 0101010101 10110011101 11001100101 0110010001 1101001101 111101 1101010101 111101011 11001010111 0101000101 1100010101 10101010 01010011110 10001110010 1101010101 11010010111 1111110001 010001 1101110101 01010101001 0111011111 0101010101 1101000101 100101 1101010101 11001010001 0101011111 11100010101 0101100101 110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 24
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 144
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; what, than, of, her, to are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words here, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of A Poet's Home;
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