This is an analysis of the poem They'Re Coming Back that begins with:
THEY 'RE coming home Thanksgiving Day,
They 're coming back once more,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcdcefeF adadagagfhfh dadaiiiibfbF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011101 1110111 11010101 011001 01010111 110111 01110001 110111 11011101 111101 01010101 111101 111011101 110101 01110111 100101 01010100 100101 01111101 110011 11010110 0111101 11010001 111101 111011111 1110101 01000101 1110101 11110101 110100 01010101 011101 01110111 010101 01010101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 370
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; they, 're, coming, back are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, the, and are repeated.
The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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