This is an analysis of the poem The Old Homestead that begins with:
JEST as atween the awk'ard lines a hand we love has penn'd
Appears a meanin' hid from other eyes,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcX ebebababdXdX fgfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,12,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11100101011111 0101010101 10110111110101 01011011001 11010101110111 0110110101 101001101111101 01010101101 11110100110111 11110100100 01000100110101 10101010011 101000101010101 0101010001 01110110011101 10100110101 11110101110101 11101010101 001110101110111 0101010111 1111011001111 00101110011 11110100111101 0011010001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 417
- Average number of words per stanza: 77
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, an', with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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