This is an analysis of the poem How My Heart Yearns Towards My Friends At Home that begins with:
How my heart yearns towards my friends at home!
Poor suffering souls, whose lives are like the trees,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcabcaXddbbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111011111 11001111101 1111000101 0110010101 1111010001 1101111101 0101010101 1011011110 1101110101 1111111101 1101110001 1101010001 0111000101 101101110100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 646
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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.
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