This is an analysis of the poem O, Vrba, Happy Village, My Old Hme that begins with:

O, Vrba, happy village, my old home -
My father's cottage stands there to this day....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abba bccb dedXede
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111010111 1101011001 0101010101 0101010101 111101111 1101010101 1111010101 1001010101 0101010101 0101011111 1110010101 01001011111 11010110111 1101110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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