This is an analysis of the poem The Harbor Lights Of Home that begins with:
J. Thomas Gordon left home one day,
Left home for good and all-... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcded abebfggg fheaeiXi bgdXjghg ceiejabX kgdg feceekcX Xcjcilgl keXeiafX icacgmkm cgXggmdm eebeXlel bceclbaX jlaleciX Xakkk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,4,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101111 111011 0110101011 1110111 110011101 100111 1010110110 1101111 111100111 101011 1110100101 0101001 101101001 110111 1110111111 1101101 011010111 1101100 0101110101 1111111 1110100101 110101 1100111001 1100001 110101101 100101 1111101101 1110101 111111010 110101 101001010 1100111 010101101 111101 0100111100 0100101 111100110 111101 1011101111 0101111 111010101 111101 10100101010 1110111 010101111 101001 1110001101 0101101 0010100111 111101 1101101011 1011010 110111100 000101 1010010100 0111101 111101101 010111 0011110101 1011111 011111001 100101 1111100110 10111001 110100111 111100 1010010101 1101101 010110110 101111 1111111010 1110101 110101111 1000111 1110101111 0110111 111111111 1111101 1110100110 0111111 111011111 100111 0100101001 1111101 110101111 010101 010110100 1010101 11111010 110101 1111110101 1100111 101001111 110101 10011111 0101011 1111111101 110111 0100110101 00101010 101010010 111101 110111101 1011101 011101001 0010111 1110110101 1101110 111110111 010101 0101101101 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 258
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 113
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; you, her, and, his, he, gone are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words gone, the are 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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