This is an analysis of the poem In The Home Stretch that begins with:
SHE stood against the kitchen sink, and looked
Over the sink out through a dusty window...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdecfeghai XjkfXalX kllX fX mdX X gnnmcX X jogeghgmX oX pndX XmXnXqnrnkgggX okjamX qegroiranbaX X pajXgfpcgmXjirgdgXemqXfXdooqXmnXhhfammfrmX ldX nnnXX shegfahfjXdXdhaXtX kX dnltXjogiqrmX nX afmoX X dX X nsX hX g X knmmX XqrenoX X amfasX X XacjsaihhnsfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,8,4,2,3,1,6,1,9,2,4,14,6,12,1,42,3,5,18,2,13,2,5,1,2,1,3,2,1,1,5,7,1,6,1,13,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010111 10011101010 1101000111 1101011001 0101010001 01111101110 0101110101 110010111011 11011110010 1111010101 1001010101 01111100110 1001101110100 10011010111 0101001110101 1101110111 11010101010 0101011011 11111011110 1011101010100 10011100101 11000100110 11110111010 01011100 1011 111101010100 10101010000 0111111101 010101010100 101011101110 101110100011 1111010111 0101010111 1101011101 1111010101 010 1011111010 10111010111 1101110101 1101010101 11110100001 0101011101 1111010101 1111110111 1101110011 0101010 10111 111101011100 10101011110 1101001111 0101000101 010 101010 10100 10001010 10101 110110 100101 11010111010 01101110010 1101111111 1111010111 0110000111 11001111001 0101011111 111101110100 1001101111111 11010010101 1101010101 1001000111 1001110101 101101011110 1101011101 1101011111 00111101011 11001101010 010100101111 0101011111 010101110010 11011101001 0111111111 01011111010 1001110101 11110101010 101110 1010101 1101111101 1101010001 111101010 01 0111010101 1101101101 0101111001 0111011111 11010100011 1111110111 0111010101 100101001010 10101111010010 10011110001 00101100101 01110010101 1101101011110 11101110101 11010111010 0101011101 110101000100 100111011111 101010111010 1101010101 1111011001 1101010111011 11010001101 101111100110 11001110011 0101011101 101011101010 11111001001 111101001001 10000110011 1111111101 1110110111 0111101111 0100110101 10010111010 1111110101 10011101010 101111101010 1111111101 110111010100 10111010111 0111100101 1011011111 10111111000 111110 10111 1111110101 01011010101 1011111111 0100110111 1101011101 0111011101 1101011111 010010000101 11110101110 1101010001 01100111011100 11011000101 0111111101 1111011101 1101011111 0111010101 111111011110 1111010101 1101110 10101 11010110011 1111010100 11010111011 011101110010 0111010101 1111110101 1111111111 01111101010 1111010001 11111111010 1111010101 11000101 10011 1100 1010100101 1101110011 0101101111 1101000011001 11111111010 10010101111100 101111111110 11010111010 1011010 10101 0001110111 1100110 101010 11110101110 10110111101 1111010100 101 0111011101 11110111010 1101011111 1110100 10010 101 11011101010 0101000101 1101010001 0101111101 11010 100110100 10111010001 1111011101 1001110111 1011011111 1111111111 10011000 10110 10001010 10011 0111110011 1011110101 1110011011 01011110111 10110101010 1101111101 0111010101 0110010111 0101010101 1101010111 1001010 10101 01001101101 11011101010 11111100010 01011110001 11010101010 111110101111
- Amount of stanzas: 38
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 226
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; sink, her, room, and, put, you, years, night, to, down, it's, had, meals, he'll, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, you, what are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines lady, years, you, know are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases this, end connect the lines.
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