This is an analysis of the poem When You Get Home, Remember Me that begins with:

Lieutenant De Long, commanding the Jeannette Artic
Expedition, having seen his vessel crushed by the ice,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXbccXdcbXXef CBgbhiXX hihX hgdgfijX fXfehidX CBfbaijX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,8,4,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0100101000110 10101010101101 10101001010111 0101001000010001 11001010010100 101001011010110 101101011101 101101001010110 110011011011000 1011011110101 010101100101010 11011010100110 11100111101 101 100101010 10000111 0011010010 11110111 10101010 1111101 110110110 1011101010 101101010 10010101 101101110 1011101010 100110010 10110101 100111010 10010101 10101011 1111101 101111110 1011101010 101101110 10111011100 100111010 10010111 11111110 1011101 111101010 1011101010 100101010 10000111 111111110 11010101 11111010 1111101 111111010 1011101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 349
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 51
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

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

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

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

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  • summary of When You Get Home, Remember Me;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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