This is an analysis of the poem Listless that begins with:
Homesick.
With drifting homeless thoughts....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaabbcb dcXaabe aXbbaec X X afX fa bdX X XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,1,1,3,2,3,1,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 010101 1010 1010111 01001010 001001010 010010110 110001010 0010101 10000010100 10101 01001011110 01010110 1111101101 110110110 11010101 1010 01010111001 00010100 1001101 001011001001 111001110 11 110101010 111101001 011 1 111101010 10 1011 111010110 01101 1110 10101001101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 103
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 34
- 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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word homesick is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Listless;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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