This is an analysis of the poem Far From My Heavenly Home that begins with:

Far from my heavenly home,
Far from my Father’s breast,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gbgb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011001 101101 10111101 111011 110101 111101 11110111 110101 010111 011101 11110100 110101 101101 111111 11110101 111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

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