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

Not here in the populous town,
In the playhouse or mart,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaab cbccB dbdXB ebeeb fbffb gbggB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001001 001111 11001111 101101101 001011 101111001 101011 111111101 101111101 101011 10010100011 101011 11001101 111010100 101011 11111101 101101 101111110 101011001 001011 110010001 101011 101101011 111011001 001011 111010001 1010001 01011011 111000101 101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.

    The author used the same words there, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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  • summary of The Home Of My Heart;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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