This is an analysis of the poem Home that begins with:
The road to laughter beckons me,
The road to all that's best;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcD efefgdgd ahahbdbD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01010101 010111 01111101 010011 01110111 110101 11111101 111101 10110101 110100 11111101 111101 11011111 100101 11110111 010111 11011101 001101 11111100 111111 11011111 110111 11011101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 254
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; road, and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, they are repeated.
The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word done at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Home;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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