This is an analysis of the poem The Little Homes that begins with:
We have heard the cheering, brothers,
We have heard the martial peal;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbcaaA aacadaaA bebeaaaa aacaefaf dfafdgag hidijXde aacaceje aaXakfaf beceagagXhfkfaaaA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010 1110101 11101010 1010111 11101010 1110101 11101010 00101 11101010 1010101 11101010 1010101 11101010 1010111 11101010 00101 00101110 1010111 00101110 0010111 11101010 1110111 10111010 10101 10001011 1000101 11101010 1010101 01101010 1110101 10101010 11111 10101110 1010111 10111010 1110101 00011010 0110111 00101110 11101 11101010 1110101 01101010 1010101 10101110 10101010 10101110 10101 11101110 1000101 11101110 1001101 11101110 1010101 11111010 10101 11111110 0110111 10111110 1110111 10111110 1110101 10111110 00101 10101110 1011111 10101010 1100101 11101010 1110101 11111010 10101 10101110 1010001 11111110 1110101 10101110 0010101 11101010 00101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 257
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, have, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, women, what, they, when are repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word homes at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Little Homes;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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