This is an analysis of the poem Homecoming that begins with:
All day, day after day, they’re bringing them home,
they’re picking them up, those they can find, and bringing them home,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcdXbabXXeXcbbXdeebXff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111001 11001111111001 1100011010101011 1100101101 1100101100101010 11001110010 0111010111111 010111011 111001 101101111011 1111110100101011 11111001100010 0100110101101 1111011100101001000 0101010111010100 01101011011110 100010111010111010 01001111001010 11011111 101111001011 1100101 110100111010 1011011001001 10101100100100 11001111110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1404
- Average number of words per stanza: 247
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; them, they, re, in, bringing, day, home are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines home is repeated).
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- summary of Homecoming;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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