Come Back To The Farm! by Henry Clay Work: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Come Back To The Farm! that begins with:

Brother, come back! come back!
Dear brother, what can be the charm,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXabbcb baXX bdXdXeXe ffafXaca
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101111 11011001 1111111111 010110101 110111111 11001101 0100101001 11111011 1010110111 01101101 10110111011 110110010 101001 01011001 0101111111 01101111 1101100110 11111011 1110111101 11011001 100111 11011001 1111111011 11011011 111010110 11101011 1111111101 11001011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 269
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; he's, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word come is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).

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