This is an analysis of the poem The Homebody that begins with:
There still are kindly things for me to know,
Who am afraid to dream, afraid to feel-...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba ccdccd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111011101 1101010101 0101011101 01010100111 1111001101 0101111111 1111010101 1111010101 01010101101 1111010001 1111110011 1111000101 1101011111 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 302
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; this, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words this, or are repeated.
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- summary of The Homebody;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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