This is an analysis of the poem Journey Home that begins with:
The time that my journey takes is long and the way of it long.
I came out on the chariot of the first gleam of light, and pursued my ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XX Xa ab X bX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,2,2,1,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 011110101101001 111101000011011011 1010100001101111001110 00011011110010 11100011001100100100001 01001011100100101001 1110101101010101011101 1111110111011111 01010111010010010 1110010010001011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 74 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 15
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, my, and, to are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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