This is an analysis of the poem Back Home that begins with:
GLAD to be back home again,
Where abide the friendly men;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccXdee ffaXggffhh ddgghhccbb iiaXddggee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001101 1010101 1010111 1010111 10101110 100111010 11100010 10111010 11101010 11101010 10101010 10111010 10101110 10101010 11110010 11101010 11101110 010101010 11111111 10111011 11101111 10101111 10111010 01100110 10101011 10101011 11001110 101001010 10111010 11111010 10011011 11111011 11101110 11111110 10011011 10111011 11101010 10100110 10101010 101101010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 347
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for, me, folks, know, an' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, know are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines there, lights, me, folks are repeated).
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