This is an analysis of the poem Good-Children Street that begins with:
There's a dear little home in Good-Children street -
My heart turneth fondly to-day... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Ababcc adadAA ececaa afafaa adadAA gagaaa hahaaA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10110100101 11101001 1100111001 11001011 101101100011 111001011101 11101011001 01011111 11111011011 11111001 11111011111 01011000101 11111001101 11111011 01011011001 101111011 11001011001 11011000101 11011101001 11001101 11001101111 101010001 11101101001 11011000101 101011011001 01011011 111001111011 111011011 11111011111 01011000101 11101101011 11011001 111011001101 11001101 11001011011 001101000101 1110101000001 11001011 11110001111 11111011 01101101011 10110100101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 261
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; of, and, they, her, though are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, though are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word street at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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