This is an analysis of the poem The Old-Home Folks that begins with:
Such was the Child-World of the long-ago--
The little world these children used to know:--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdde ffffgghhiijjggcc klffgiaaX mmjjnnnneelleebbooddaXddgpXeeeaa Xgpg eoeo lleeXgllqqgiddddaaggbbnnaaffbbdXnX ddebrsgXaafffX ddttuugg aaddhhccffccffbbffffddgi rsllbbddmmcceebb bbnnccmmgi ooigllffggccjjnngg qnqnbbf FFJA gdideef FFJA dadabbf FFJA dadac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,16,9,32,4,4,34,14,8,24,16,10,18,7,4,7,4,7,4,7,4,58,8,7,44,8,6,44,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101100101 0101110101 1001010101 0011010101 0100011111 1001000101 01010100101 11010010101 101100 1101 10110010101 0100010001 1101010100 0110010101 1111001101 01010001101 11011001111 1101001100 1101110100 0011010111 1011111101 0111010111 0101111101 1110011101 1101111101 11100000100 1001011101 0101101001 0100011111 1111010111 1111111100 1011011111 01001111 1101 110101 0101110111 1111011111 0101010111 11001010111 0100111101 0101110101 1011011111 011101111 0101000101 1111010111 0101110111 11000101111 1111011100 1101100101 1101010101 1111111101 1001000100 1101011011 11010100111 1101010011 01001010100 11100100101 1101111101 1011110111 1100011100 10000110101 0101010101 0001010101 01010010001 11000101000 0101011101 11101010101011 1011100110101 110101011101010 1000101010001 11101110101110 1010101011101 10111010101010 10101001010101 110010101 1011010101 010111101 0101010101 11010101000 0101010111 1111010101 1111000101 0101110101 1100111101 1001000101 1101010100 0011010101 0101010101 0011011011 1011010001 0101011011 1111010101 0101011011 0101110011 10110011101 0101001101 110100011011 11001110101 1100010100 1101010101 1111010111 11001011101 1100010101 0101011001 1101010101 1111011101 11011101101 0101011111 1101010001 01001110101 0001010000 0111110010 1101110111 111101101 11101011111 10101011111 1101110101 1101110111 1101111111 11111110111 0111011101 0111001111 1101010101 0111010111 1101000101 1101011111 0101011101 1101101101 1101101111 0111010111 1101010111 0101010111 0101010111 1111010101 0101010101 0101011001 0011111011 0101010100 0011011101 01010111001 1111110111 1101110111 1101010111 0101110101 0101110101 0100010101 1001010101 1001001101 1111011111 1111110101 01001000111 1111010101 0111100101 0101110010 1101001111 1101000101 0101010101 1101010111 0101001101 1101110001 1101001111 0100011101 1111010101 0101011101 0101000101 0101010111 01010111001 1101011101 11001001101 11010011101 1101110100 1101111101 1101010111 1001011111 1100010101 1101000111 01001010111 1111110101 1101110001 1101011100 10001000111 1111010111 010111100 10001011101 0100100101 0101110101 1001001101 0101111011 1100010111 1101000101 1001010101 11111111001 0111010101 0100010101 10101010101 0100010100 1101011101 1101110101 0110110101 1111000111 1111101100 0101111111 000101 110101 11010101011 1111 111011 111011101 111101 1111011110 0101100111 1111110100 1111010001 110111 101101 01001101011 1111 111011 111011101 111101 1101011101 1011110111 0101000001 0101011111 110111 010101 11010101011 1111 111011 111011101 111101 1101111101 0111110111 1111010101 1111110111 111001 100111 11010101011 1111 111011 111011101 111101 0111100001 1101010111 01010010001 1111010101 0101110111 0111010101 1101000101 0101010111 1101000101 1101010111 1001110111 0101010101 01000010101 0111010101 0101010111 1110010101 1111110111 01001010101 11010011001 1101110100 1011010101 0101010111 0111001111 0101011001 0101110011 0101100111 0101010101 1101011101 1100010101 010100100111 010101001001 0101011101 01010010101 0101111111 0101010101 0101010111 1011010111 1101110111 1001010100 0111010101 1001000111 0101110101 11010010010 11010101010 0101110111 1101110110 1100010101 010100100100 1101000101 01111100100 0101011100 01001011101 0101010101 0101111101 1101010101 01011000101 1100010001 0101100101 1101010101 0110011101 1101111101 0101110101 010100110101 0001010101 0101011111 0111010111 1101000101 1001010101 1111010111 0101110111 0101110111 0101010100 11010 10101 0101001101 1101010101 1111010101 1101010101 0110011111 1010011111 11001001111 1111010111 1100110101 0100010100 1101010101 1100010101 0011010111 011110101 1101110101 1101010101 0101000101 11001010111 10011101001 1111010100 0101011001 1100110111 11011101001 1101011011 0101010101 11110101001 1101100101 1001000101 11010010101 1101000111 1111010111 1111001011 1101110101 1101000111 1011010101 1111000101 1101010101 1100111110 0101001111 0101010100 01110000101 1001011101 1111010101 11110101010 11110101110 11111101110 1010111010010 0101111101 1111011101 1111110101 11001100101 1111010111 1101000101 0111000101 110111001001 0111010101 1011000101 1111011101 01010010101 1100010111 1100001101 1101100011 1101010101 0100110101 1100010001 0010101101 1110111101 0101010110 011111101 1111111101 0100011101 0011110111 0101010101 1111010101 1111110100 1001010101 0001011000 1101110111 0101010111 1101001001 1101011100 1101011111 01001010101 1111110101 110101011 1101100101 1100100101 0101010101 1101010111 01011001100 1101010100 1101010101 0101000101 1101110101 0101000101 0100010101 0101010111 0101111100 0111010001 1101000101 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 28
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 620
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 417
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, how, his, to, an', their, ', got, uncle, her, or, so, heart, from, we, as, all, he, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, of, he's, the, or are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines heart is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words ', '' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Old-Home Folks;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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