This is an analysis of the poem Prophets At Home that begins with:

Prophets have honour all over the Earth,
Except in the village where they were born,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbcbc dbdbXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1011011001 0100101101 11110101 10101001 1101101111 1101001000 11111101101 11110001010 110100111 110101101 1110110111 111101110 11101111100 11111111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 303
  • Average number of words per stanza: 57
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • 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.

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