This is an analysis of the poem The Homesteader that begins with:
WIND-SWEPT and fire-swept and swept with bitter rain,
This was the world I came to when I came across the sea--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab abab cbcb dede bXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111101110101 01011101110101 11110010101 101010110101 1011101110111 01011101110101 01010101011001 101011110111 1101110110011 11010101110101 11010111110111 101110111111 110111110101001 011011111011101 11011101110111 111111111101 0101010110101 01011000111100011 1100111111100111 110101010101110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 227
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, swept, i've, it, i, miles, of, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i've is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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- summary of The Homesteader;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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