This is an analysis of the poem The Home Of Peace that begins with:

Trust and treachery, wisdom, folly,
Madness, mirth and melancholy, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeff gggg ffgg aagg XXhhXaacc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111001010 10111010 11101110 111010010 10101110 11101010 11101010 10100110 00101010 10101010 11101010 10101110 01101110 10101010 11101010 10111010 01111110 10011010 10101010 1011110 01101110 10101010 10101010 10101010 00101010 101010110 11101010 10111010 11111010 00111010 10101110 111001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.

    The author used the same word in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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