This is an analysis of the poem Home, Sweet Home that begins with:
Backward across the lapse of years,
With its ebbing tide of smiles and tears,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabX XXccbb ddbbee ffddff ggaahh bXhhhh bXggdd ffXbee iiffbbXhhhhbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10010100 001010111 10010101 1110100111 111110101 1100101110 11010111 011101100 1110100101 1010100101 101010101 011010111 110011101 001010101 110110101 01110111 100010111 0100100101 10110111001 111011111 1101010101 1101101001 111100111 110100101 10110011101 1100100101 11111001010 11110101110 11101001001 010100101 10010101 110010101 11100101100 110101100 111011111 111010111 11011001001 1100101110 110100101 101011101 1010110101 100110101 101010101 00100111011 11001101001 0011101101 110101101 011101101 1101111001 0010100101 1111100101 11111101001 1110101001 10100101101 111010101 0100100101 1010111101 0010110100 110110101 1110010111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; of, and, nor, those, that, home are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nor, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same words face, home at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Home, Sweet Home;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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