This is an analysis of the poem Selling The Old Home that begins with:
The little house has grown too small, or rather we have grown
Too big to dwell within the walls where all our joys were known....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc aaddcX eefXXeXffeeaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01011111110111 11010101111101 110100001001111 11011101010101 11010101110011 11011111110101 11011101110101 01100101110111 111101010010101 01110011111111 11110111010011 11110101110101 11110101110001 110100101010101 11001101010111 11111111111101 110101111101110 11001010011101 11011101011111 01011101010111 11110101111111 11110111101100 11000101011101 11010110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 370
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, ', i, of, and, here are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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- summary of Selling The Old Home;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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