This is an analysis of the poem Songs Of A Country Home that begins with:
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Who has not felt his heart leap up, and glow... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbb ccc ddd X efeffghg didiijXj X hhXhh hhhA hhhhhA X ddkkXhhkk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,3,3,1,8,8,1,5,4,6,1,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1 1111011111 1101010101 1111111101 00110100100 1101010101 11001100001 1101010101 1101010111 1111000101 1 100101000 01111101 01010010 01010101 11010101 110101110 11010101 001101110 11010101 11010101 011111001 10010101 11000101 1001001110 11011101 11110 1 1101010101 1101000101 1101001100 1101000101 0101011101 0101010101 0111010101 1100010101 1101 1101010101 0110010101 0101010101 0101110101 1101010011 1101 1 01011101 01110111 01010101 01010101 11011101 11010111 01111101 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words not, just, we, the are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word die at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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