This is an analysis of the poem Homesick that begins with:
It's tough when you are homesick in a strange
and distant place;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaXcdcebcb bfgfgbXbefdfgbhb ehahdfXfXbdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,16,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111111001 1101 010111011 10101 1101001101 1101 11100101000 10101 101011111010 100 0101010101 1110 111010100111 101 1010101010100 01 11101010111 1111 11101010101 0111 1110101010100 01 101011101110 101 111010100010 011 01010110011 110 111110101010 100 11100010111 1101 111110101110 101 0011101010 10101 101010101110 001 1110101000 11110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 458
- Average number of words per stanza: 79
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; never, and are repeated.
The author used the same word oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word in at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Homesick;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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