This is an analysis of the poem Rolling Home that begins with:
Oh, there's places up and down that are queer and quaint and pretty;
Sydney's a pleasant port, Frisco's a giddy city;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabb cadd cceebb ffdd ddddggXdddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,6,4,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011111111110 1001011001010 10110111101010 011011110110 1110001101110 11111010110010 1110110111011 0111011111110 10110111101110 1010101011010 0100011111011 10101111011111 1011011011010 1011011011010 101011110110110 0110101111010 1111110101011 101011110101011 10110101011110 101011111110 111010111101010 101011111101110 101101010101010 10110101111110 1110111101110 10101011110110 1110110101010 11110111101010 00101011011010 1110111110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 290
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 30
- 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; and, to, may, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, but, just are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ye, us, in are repeated).
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- summary of Rolling Home;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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