This is an analysis of the poem Welcome Home that begins with:
The fire burns bright
And the hearth is clean swept,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaa abbaa abbaa cbbcc deedd cddcc affaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011 101011 11101 101001 101001 01101 111101 101101 11001 111011 01011 101101 1001011 11101 101101 11001 11111 011011 11001 101001 101011 001101 101101 101101 11001 101101 111001 101101 01101 11001 111111 111001 111101 111011 11001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Welcome Home;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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