This is an analysis of the poem We Must Get Home that begins with:
We must get home! How could we stray like this?--
So far from home, we know not where it is,--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaabb ccdddD ddeeff ggffdD bbhhee ggeedD bbeeaa XabbdD iibbbb gXdddD ffjjdD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111111110 1101111100 10011101001 0101010101 1101010101 10001010101 1111111001 1101010101 1111011111 0100010101 01101010111 1111111101 1111011111 0101111101 0111000101 0111010101 11010010111 01001111111 1111011101 1111011111 1101110111 1111011101 1111010111 1111111101 1111100101 0101010101 11001011101 11101011101 0111000101 1101110101 1111101101 0101011111 1101011011 0110010101 0101010101 1111111101 0101010101 01010111001 01011000101 1001110111 0101010101 1101100101 1111111111 1101110101 1111110101 0111110111 1111111101 1111111101 1111011101 1111010101 1001000101 1101001111 1111110101 1101110100 11111100001 1101010100 100100100101 0101110111 10101111001 1111111101 1111011111 1101010001 1100111101 0111010101 01001001111 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 263
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, our, all, must are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, when, and are repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word again at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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