This is an analysis of the poem The Homestead that begins with:
AGAINST the wooded hills it stands,
Ghost of a dead home, staring through... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab Xcdc efef gaga Xaha iaia edeX Xcdc jbjb khkh lblb aiai emem ilil fdXd icic meme gcXcXaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01010101 10011101 01011101 111101 100101110 01010111 11110101 111101 010111001 01011111 11110101 010101 01111101 11010101 01010101 010111 01011101 11110101 100100101 010101 01010101 10111101 11010111 110101 11110111 11010101 111100111 110101 11110011 011100101 01010101 010111 11010101 11010111 110101001 101101 01010101 01010111 01011111 111101 01110101 01110001 01100111 110011 010010101 010110101 11010111 101101 11010101 01111111 01011101 1111001 110000101 110111001 111111001 110111 110100101 11011111 11110111 101111 11000111 11010101 11110111 110111 110101001 01110111 111111011 111101 11110101 01011111 101111010 110111 01111101 11011101 01011101 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 76
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, no are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, did, the are repeated.
The author used the same word did at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Homestead;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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