This is an analysis of the poem Lonesome that begins with:
MOTHER's gone a-visitin' to spend a month er two,
An', oh, the house is lonesome ez a nest whose birds has flew...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaAccddaAeedddXddffaabbggaA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1010100010101 11010101011111 01010110011111 101011100010001 01011101011101 11010100010101 11010101110001 11010101111101 11011101010111 01110101010101 11010011111101 11010100010101 01011111110111 11110001010001 111111101111111 111010110110111 11110101110101 11010111110110 010111010110100 11000101011111 010110111111101 11011101100101 01111101011101 11010100010101 01011101111111 01010101011111 110111111110101 11100101111111 111110111010101 11010100010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1797
- Average number of words per stanza: 357
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, we've, er, i, an' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we've, the are repeated.
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- summary of Lonesome;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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