This is an analysis of the poem When You Come Home that begins with:
All will be right when you come home, dear lad,
But oh, 'tis long of coming that you are!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcaca dedefafa agagXaXa dhdhecec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001111111 1111010111 1011010111 1111010011 1101010101 1010011001 1101011111 1101010111 1101011101 1101011101 0101010110 1001010101 1111111101 0111011101 1111001101 1011010111 1101000101 1101011101 1111110101 0111100101 1111010111 0101011111 1101011110 0111110111 1011111101 1011110111 1101111111 1011010101 0101010111 0111101101 1111011001 0101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 346
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; how, and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.
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- summary of When You Come Home;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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