This is an analysis of the poem My Home Is Not Your Parents' House that begins with:
Excuse me.
I believe I misunderstood your last comment....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abacbb XbXXX ddXAcda Xbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,7,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011 101110011110 11111111 1111111101 1010 101111 11110 11111111111 101011010 011100101111 10101111001 00101011111 11010111111 1 011 101110011000011 11011101 11110011 1111101010 111 00111101101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, what, you, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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