This is an analysis of the poem Going Home that begins with:
The village lights grew dim behind, the snow lay vast and white,
And silent as an icy shroud spread out upon the night;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc aXddee ffggaa hhiXff iiaaee jjbbaj cciicX cchhXX aaccjX Xjjccjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01011101011111 11011101110101 01110001110101 01110111010101 01010100010101 11010001011011 01110101011101 11010101010110 0101011010100101 11010111110101 01010001110101 11011101011101 01110101110101 010010101110101 01011101010101 11000101110101 11010100010101 01110101010001 01010101110001 11000100110101 11001111010101 110001001111101 01011101110101 11010101110101 0101101011110101 01010101010101 11110101111001 011111001100101 11011101010001 11010100010101 01110101000101 11000101110101 01010101110111 01111100010101 01111100011101 011101111101011 01111101011111 01010100010101 11110100010101 1111001011100101 1110111111010101 001100111010101 010111000101011 01011100010101 11010101110001 110101011001001 101011101011111 110101011111101 01011101010101 11010100010001 110100101010101 01010111010101 010111001010101 11010101110100 01110111010101 11010100010001 01011101010001 11000100011111 011100101110101 11010101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 369
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 61
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, light, it, his, in, crouching are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, a, and 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.
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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