This is an analysis of the poem Father Returning Home that begins with:
My father travels on the late evening train
Standing among silent commuters in the yellow light...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdXbadXaeXfbefcdXXggd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010101101 10011001000101 10110101 011111010111 101101101 0100101111 1101010011 1111110101 101100110 110010100111 1001111001 01011001111010 1011111011 10011001001 11000100101 101000111 101110101 01101010011 0110100101101 010101100101 111001101101 10000101010110 00110111010 0111000010010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1103
- Average number of words per stanza: 196
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
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