This is an analysis of the poem Home 2 that begins with:

Fair was the morning, fair our tempers, and
We had seen nothing fairer than that land,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaba Xa aaaccdeX eX dXddXbbc caaaaX ccXdff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,2,8,2,8,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101011101 1111010111 1110100111 1001101111 11110111101 1111011101 0111011011 11100011011 1111110111 1101000101 1011111101 0011111101 1011101110 111101111101 0101 110111 01110101110 01101010111 1101001011 1111111111 0111010111 1001011101 10101111011 110001011 00010010101 1001110101 1101011001 10111110111 1101011001 10010010001 11 01110101 1011111010 1011000100 11110111110 0101110111 1010101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 37
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, and, we, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    The author used the same word fair at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Home 2;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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