This is an analysis of the poem Most Times Away From Home that begins with:
Sacred inside cries.
Unlike those one catches by surprise, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa bbaXX cdXaead fafg XegbeGGGGgcXcac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,5,7,4,15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011 011110101 100101011 11101 11011101 1100 1101000100 1011110 11110 101101011 111110 1100110011 101110 01011010 111001001 10100101 110111 01 10010001011 110111111 10101111010 11010101 10101 101111010 11 110111 11 110111 0010101 110101 110101 11 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 33
- 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; times, most are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word most 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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