This is an analysis of the poem The Road Home that begins with:
Over the hills, as the pewee flies,
Under the blue of the Southern skies;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbbb ccdd eeff gghh iiff jXdd jjaa jjff hhaa Xhdd kkcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10011011 100100101 100110111 1010101111 100110111 1011100101 1011100111 111100101 1011000101 0100101001 1011100101 10100100101 101011101010 110111110 1010001111 1110100101 011111001 10101001001 1011110111 10100100101 110101101 110101101 1011101111 111100111 111101111 0111011011 001110101 111110111 0100101111 0010110101 0010101101 1101011001 110100111 0101001001 010100111 010101111 0010100011 011100101 010100111 1010100101 011110101 00100110111 010100111 1111101101 111111001 0010110101 0011111001 0011100101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her, she, come are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words where, past, of, to are repeated.
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- summary of The Road Home;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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