This is an analysis of the poem Homeward Going that begins with:
GRAY smoke in the green leaves,
Someone homeward going,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaBcdedebcbXbXXXbaB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110011 111010 110011 101010 111011 111010 110011 1001010 111011 101110 110011 101110 111011 101010 1110101 101000 111011 101010 111011 101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 541
- Average number of words per stanza: 95
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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.
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