This is an analysis of the poem The Old Home that begins with:
An old lane, an old gate, an old house by a tree;
A wild wood, a wild brook they will not let me be:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaA bbb ccc ddd eee fffXaaA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111111111101 011011101110 011110111101 110111110111 111010010101 111111110001 110110010011 011011010111 011011010111 010011010101 010011011101 1101010011111 010010110101 010010110101 010011110101 0100111011001 010010101111 011011111011 011011011101 011011101110 011110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; old, and, to, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, the are repeated.
The author used the same word to at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Old Home;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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