This is an analysis of the poem Going Home that begins with:
I'm goin' 'ome to Blighty -- ain't I glad to 'ave the chance!
I'm loaded up wiv fightin', and I've 'ad my fill o' France;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaX bbbX cccX dXdX XeeX eeeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101110101 01011101111111 01010101110111 101010100010 01010101110101 11011101110111 01110100010111 101110100010 11000111110001 110101011100101 11110101111101 01010100010 11010111110111 11110101010111 11010100110111 01110100010 01010101110101 11010101110101 11110101111101 111110100010 11010101110001 11010101110101 11111101110111 11111100010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 227
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (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; i'm, to, in, me, and, be, furrin' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i'm, i've are repeated.
The author used the same word i'm at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word mawnin' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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