This is an analysis of the poem Homemade Common Sense that begins with:
Homemade common sense,
Seems to always get the rent paid......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbbcX AcDAd EAXXc acDAdXEAcbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11101 10111011 101001001110 00110100111 011101011001 11101 0 01011010101010001 0110101110111 01101011100010 101010100101001 10110101000100 1101111100 111100101001 001100010100100101001 11111110101 0 01011010101010001 0110101110111 01101011100011001 101010100101001 10110101000100 1111011 01101011 11111001010110100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 222
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same word homemade at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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