This is an analysis of the poem We Journey Towards A Home that begins with:

We journey towards a home not of our flesh. Its chestnut trees are not of our bones.
Its rocks are not like goats in the mountain hymn. The...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcaccXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001011011011111011 0111110010101011110 1100101111101100101 10010011011101011 1101111111111111 1110111001010110111 1110101010101110111011 1111011101111100011100 10010110111111101001111 0111010100101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 783
  • Average number of words per stanza: 157
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • Average number of symbols per line: 77 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 16
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; not, us, our, and, of are repeated.

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