This is an analysis of the poem Who Goes Home? that begins with:
In the city set upon slime and loam
They cry in their parliament 'Who goes home?' ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaabb aaaaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010101111 11011001110 1111100111 1100100111 111101101 111101011 111101111 101100111 11110111101 1110101111 10110100101100 101100111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 299
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, for, blood, on, and, who are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines home is repeated).
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