This is an analysis of the poem Home Thoughts, From Abroad that begins with:
Oh, to be in England
Now that April's there,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccdX eeXfXfffddbf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100010 11101 10101010 1110101 1010110101 1011110101 1010110101 01000 110101110 10100111010 1111011001 10011101010 1011000011100 10111111110 11111101010 0111010 1101110101 1001110101 0101010101 101010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 409
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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