This is an analysis of the poem When The Children Come Home that begins with:
On a lonely selection far out in the West
An old woman works all the day without rest, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabX ccXX ddeX bbaX ffXd ggeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101001011001 11101101011 111111101101 1110111010110 11101011111 11011111101 111001111001 111011101011 001100101101 11111101111 11111111011 101111101111 01001011001 11001001011 01101011011 111111011010 11101111001 111101111011 111001111010 101111001001 11001011001 11111001011 111111101001 1110110010110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she, and, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word she is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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