This is an analysis of the poem Home that begins with:
The merciless fire devoured
The house of my childhood games....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX Xb Xc aa da aX Xc dd XX Xb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010010010 0101111 110010110 11101011 111110010 01101001 011110110 11001001 111110010 11111111 011010111 01001011 110011010 11011001 0100100010 11101001 111010010 11011001 11001011 0111001001
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 67
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; my is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Home;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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