This is an analysis of the poem Lines -- For Berkshire Jubilee, Aug. 23, 1844 that begins with:
Come back to your mother, ye children, for shame,
Who have wandered like truants for riches or fame! ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb cccc cccc ddee ccff ccgg gghh iihh hhjj ddkk ffaa ddcc llhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11011011011 11101111011 001101101001 11101001001 11011011111 11111001011 101011111001 0010111001011 11001111011 101001001001 11011011011 01001001001 11001101001 11001111001 111111111011 011011001001 11111101001 111011101011 11001111011 101001001011 11001011011 001101101101 11001010001 110010011111 01011101001 11001011001 01111111011 11111101101 11011111011 11101101001 11001001001 101001111011 101011011111 01101010101 11001011001 001001101001 10101001101 01001111001 01001011001 111001011001 11011001001 101001001101 11011001101 01101010101 11101011001 001101011001 11011011011 101111001001 11011011011 11101011111 01111001101 101010001001
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, your, and, you, of, his, with, he, we, to, at are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.
The author used the same word come at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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