This is an analysis of the poem A Homeless Man's Departure that begins with:
After the Rebellion of 755, all was silent wasteland,
gardens and cottages turned to grass and thorns....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcbadbbdbXabbcXcaXcccXXXefeafX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10001001111011 10110010111 11011001011 100101100111 10110010010 011111 1010101010010 111101111 1101110101 01110110110 111010101 1111111001 10101101 111110 0010110110 11111011 00111011101 111001111 01010011101 1101010011 0101010111011 1101111101001 01101101001 110111011011 111010101 11111100 1001011111110 1010000101001 11101111110 111011111 01111110001110 11110101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1329
- Average number of words per stanza: 259
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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