This is an analysis of the poem Homesick In Heaven that begins with:
THE DIVINE VOICE
Go seek thine earth-born sisters,--thus the Voice... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabab cdcd CeXed fgdgd gaga bbbb hihi Cjbjf fhfhf Ci fkeke hkhk Calal fmbmb fhfh Chlhl ikik fkfk bhbkh abab nono
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,5,5,4,4,4,5,5,2,5,4,5,5,4,5,4,4,5,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0011 1111110101 1101011101 11010101001 1101011100 1101001111 1100111101 1111111101 1111010101 010 1101011101 11010111010 1010010101 01010101001 110 1111010101 1001111101 01110010101 100110011101 1111111101 1111111111 11011010101 0111010101 0101111101 1111010100 110010100111 01010001001 0101110101 1111110101 01001011101 01010101001 010 1101010101 1001011101 1111010101 111101 0110 11011011011101 0101010101 1101101111 1111010111 010 11 01010 11011101 0101110111 1111010111 1101010111 1101110111 1101011111 1111110111 1111000101 010 1111000101 1101011101 1111000101 01010001001 0110 11110101010 1011011101 11011111110 1101011111 1111000101 0111110101 11010010101 1111110101 010 1111110101 1111100111 01011011101 0111010111 11010111101 11010010101 11010010101 1011000101 11011100111 1101011111 10010011101 11011100101 1101110001 0110010111 1001000101 1101010011 1 0111001101 0101110101 0111111101 11001110110 1111011101 0111011111 11110101001 1101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 100
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; our, my, i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, to, the, ye are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines voice is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase home connects the lines.
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