This is an analysis of the poem We Who Stay At Home that begins with:
When you were just our little boy, on many a night we crept
Unto your cot and watched o'er you, and all the time you slept....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ccddee bbeebbXbbeebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 110111011100111 101111101110111 11010111111101 10111111111101 111101111100111 11011101011111 01011101001101 01010111110101 111111101110101 11110101011111 10111111101111 11010111110101 01110101010111 11011101010111 11111110110101 11010111010111 11011111010101 11011111110111 11010111111101 11010101110111 11110111110111 11010100011001 11110101111101 01011111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 388
- Average number of words per stanza: 76
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you, your, to, we, of 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 We Who Stay At Home;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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