This is an analysis of the poem Home Delights that begins with:
To operas and balls my cousins take me,
And fond of plays my new-made friend would make me.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddXeffggeeffhhii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101111011 11011111111 0101010111 0110011101 1101010101 1011010101 0101010111 0100111101 01010101010 1101001101 0011011101 01010010101 1111111101 0101011101 1011110101 1101110101 1101011011 1001010111 0001011101 1101011111 10001010011 1111001101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 943
- Average number of words per stanza: 177
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; my, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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- summary of Home Delights;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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