This is an analysis of the poem Rather Stay Home that begins with:
NEVER so happy as when I 'm at home,
I 'm not so anxious to wander or roam;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd AaeeffccXAabbccdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110111011 10111001011 1011001111 01101001011 11011001001 11011001001 11001011001 111110111101 10110111011 1011001011 101101111001 101111011111 1011001111 11001011001 11001101001 111101101011 10110111011 1101001011 1011001111 11101001010 01001101001 1011011101001 101111011101 11111011011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 345
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word for is repeated.
The author used the same word never at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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