This is an analysis of the poem Home Burial that begins with:
He saw her from the bottom of the stairs
Before she saw him. She was starting down,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdefXdgXhXijffX k X X jcbcddgdaaX dk haelX dcX hXjX XX f jmdnbdlhohXnhbXcjgmkoX X dnjX eXoccXgnamjfaaoagX dX mfXhdpndgXboklknX pciX nX pdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,1,1,1,11,2,5,3,4,2,1,22,1,4,18,2,17,4,2,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1100010001 0111111101 10110010111 11010111010 0101110111 010010100011 01111111010 1111010111 1011010101 110111000110 10011100101 100111111110 1001011101 001100001110 1111111101 1101011101 111110100101100 10001011 101110 10101101011010 1100110111 1101000101 11010001010 0101111101 1101010100 11110101100 11110111010 11010110011 10100110011 1110100101 10111 1011 1011 1011000101 110101001111 1111010101 11110011101 100110011110 101111111110 1111011111 111101010110 10011011101 10011111010 1111010101 1001011101110 101110110 10110 0101011101 10111011101 1111010101 1101111101 1101111111 01110111001 01001111010 1111110111 1011010101 1111111111 111111010010 111111010010 11010101011 1100011101 11010001010 1100110111 0110111101 0111111111 111111010010 11011101001 0111010011 11000000101 110100101011 10111010 10101 1111011101 1101010100 01110011110 10101111101 0111010111 01111110101 1110110101 1001011101 11111111110 1111010101 11101111011 1111011101 01011111110 11101111001 1001011111 1111010111 1111001111 0011011101 1101110101 1110110101 111001011110 10110111101 011011010100 1010101011010 1101011101 0101110111 1001111101 1111010101 01011001010 1101010111 0100011111 1111110111 1001110101 1001111101 11010100001 10110001111 11001011101 11010111101 1011011111 01110111110 101110111110 1111110101 0111001101 10111101010 101110101111 111001111111 10110111000110 10111011111 110111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 276
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 121
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she, what, i, of, that, it, you, to, and, your, one are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, but, don't, and are repeated.
The author used the same word i 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 see, it, them are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase don't connects the lines.
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- summary of Home Burial;
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