This is an analysis of the poem A Poet's Home that begins with:

Two pretty rills do meet, and meeting make
Within one valley a large silver lake:... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffgghhiijjggbbXchheeeeXXddggddkellddmmhhnn hheknn nXgXeenngXhh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 52,6,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101111101 0111001101 0111001101 010110101 1101111101 00010100101 10010100101 1101010101 0101010001 1011010101 1101000111 11010111001 0101010101 11001101101 1101111101 1101011101 01110101001 1111010101 0101110101 11101111101 11110101010 11011101010 1111010101 011010011101 1101010111 1101110101 1111011001 0101110111 0111011001 0111010111 1111000100 1101000111 1100010101 1101010101 1101110101 0111010101 1111001111 0101010101 0100010011 1011011101 1001010110 11110101 0101111111 0110010011 11010100111 01010011101 1101111111 1101110111 11001010101 1101011101 0101111101 0101110101 1110010101 1100010111 1101110101 1111111100 1111110101 0101010111 01001110101 1101010100 1101011101 1101010101 1011001101 1111001100 0101110101 01111110101 1101010111 0111001101 11110100111 0101011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1018
  • Average number of words per stanza: 182
  • Amount of lines: 70
  • 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; nor, with, and, those are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words on, the are repeated.

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  • summary of A Poet's Home;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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