This is an analysis of the poem The Home Of The Spirit that begins with:

Answer me, burning stars of night,
Where is the spirit gone, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcX ededdadX fbfbadaX bbbbcbfXX bX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,9,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110101 100101 11010101 101111 10110111 0111011 10010101 111101 11011101 1101001 11010111 110111 10110001 111111 11011101 111111 11110001 010101 10110111 110101 01110101 110001 11010011 111101 11110101 100111 10111101 100101 10110111 0101010 1111 1 110 1 001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; and is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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