This is an analysis of the poem The Homecomer's Song that begins with:
YE HO, for a sight of the land that I love,
And her flag floating high on the breeze;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd EFGEfG heheiciC EFGEFG dadaeceCXEFGEFG
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,8,6,15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11101001111 101101101 11101001101 101001001 111101010001 111101001 111001011011 001111101 101101 101101 101001001 101101 011101 01001011 01001001001 11001111 111101101001 101011101 111111011001 11111001 11001001101 01111101 101101 101101 101001001 101101 011101 01001011 11111111011 11111011 11111011001 11101111 11111111001 11101111 11001011011 01111101 101101 101101 101001001 101101 011101 01001011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; her, of, and, it's are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of The Homecomer's Song;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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