This is an analysis of the poem To Leave Home Is Hard, But We Have To Leave that begins with:

The Prince leaves His home, to the desert He heads
Friends and loved ones follow, in His path they tread ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcadeccdXdfgghgaeaieijdehahjcafjfiibbebhhfdfeffkkbklcbbbkggbXfkffgdkjjXbilkjkiliajkhhihggffkfiiagfgjkXXhXllgggXeg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 114,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01101001011 11111000111 110110101001 100101000101 011001001001 110100101101 010001110101 010010010101 01010111001 10111000101 11011011011 0011010101 1011010111101 10101001010010 1001010111101 1011110001010 1001000101011 10010010111 001010010101 110101111 10010011001011 01101101101 111011111 101111011000 11101101101 0100010101011 1001010010101 101011101011 101010011101 110010111101 100010111 1010110100101 11001011101 1101110111 11111111111 11001101111 11011111101 0111110011111 1111101010111 11001101001 111010101 1111010111 1110110101 1101101001 010111011001 10101101111 00101101011 11110101101 01011010110001 1110101000101 011010101011 0100110101 0110111101 1111101101 01010010011 10001011001 1001001011 111111111 10100100011 1111001011 100111101 10101111101 11101111101 000001111111 111101010111 11110101101 1001011001 111011101 1010101011111 111111001 1100110011 101110101 01010101011 11111101001 11101110101 10110111001 1111010111 00100111111 011011101001 101100110101 01010101100 011111111 01101011011 1110111111 1111101101 111101101011 11111001101 111011111 01111011101 111111111 1101101001 1110101010101 101001010111 11101101101 10011001101 0110111101 1110110111 11110111101 0100110011111 111011011 011010011011 11010101 11011011010 11111010110 11110111111 101101010110 010111111111 10111011111 11011011001 011011100101 011010010111 11010001111 01111011111 101111011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 5381
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1035
  • Amount of lines: 114
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, his, we, mother, you, my, her, and, me, take, i, with, ll are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines akber is repeated).

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