This is an analysis of the poem Right Here At Home that begins with:
Right here at home, boys, in old Hoosierdom,
Where strangers allus joke us when they come,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbXX ccddee ddaaff cXggee hhbbii ccgXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111101100 1101011111 1111111100 1101111101 1101010111 1111101110 1111100111 1111111100 1101110101 1101110111 1101111111 1111111101 1111110101 1101011101 1111010101 0101011101 11101101010 1111111101 1111100111 1111001101 1101010110 1101000101 0111110111 1111111100 1111111111 1111010101 111101011 1001010111 1101110001 1111111101 1111110111 0100111101 1111000111 1111111000 111111101 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 269
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, we, to, right, home are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words right, and are repeated.
The author used the same word right at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase right connects the lines.
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- summary of Right Here At Home;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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