This is an analysis of the poem Home Along that begins with:
When days are getting' short an' cold, an' the long nights begin,
With waves like mountains rollin' high, an' the norther blowin' thin,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbX ddbX eebX ffbX ffbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111101101 011101011010101 11111111110101 1011010011110 101101111101 11110101110101 110010101110101 1011010011 11011101011101 101111111111 11011101011111 1011010011 101101110101 11111111011101 111101111011111 1011010011 11111111010101 111111111111101 011101010110101 1011010011 1011011110101 01010111011101 0101101011011101 1011010011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 232
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; an', home, along, i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words home, an' are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word countrie at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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