This is an analysis of the poem The Old Home Ii that begins with:
They've torn the old house down, that stood,
Like some kind mother, in this place,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb dede eeee fafa gbgb eeee eheh cdcd ihih aaaa eeee aXae djdj bdbd fbfb fkfk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011111 11110001 11010101 11010101 01011101 11011100 11110101 01010101 01111101 01110001 11011111 11010111 01011101 110010111 01011101 01000111 01010101 110010101 01110111 10110111 1010011111 11010001 110100111 10110001 111110010 10110101 100101010 11011001 11011101 10010111 1100001001 100010111 11000101 01010111 11010111 11010101 10010111 1000100101 01110101 11010100 11010101 11000101 10011101 010111001 11011101 11110111 11110101 11110101 11010001 01111101 11000101 11010101 100100101 11010101 11100111 01010011 01011101 01110111 11010111 10111101 01100101 01110101 110001000 01010100 01111101 11011111 11111101 01111111
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, my, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, it, a are repeated.
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