This is an analysis of the poem When The Boys Come Home that begins with:
There's a happy time coming,
When the boys come home. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBaBcccB dBdBbbbB eBeBfffB cBcBgggB bBbBdXdB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010110 10111 10100110 10111 10101010 00101110 0010010 10111 010110 10111 1110010 10111 1111010 0111010 111010 10111 0110010 10111 11101010 10111 0110010 10110010 10101010 10111 11011010 10111 1110110 10111 1111010 0101010 00111010 10111 1111010 10111 0101010 10111 10101010 11111100 00101010 10111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; them, and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines them is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word home at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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