This is an analysis of the poem The Old Kentucky Home that begins with:
A NEGRO MELODY.
The sun shines bright in the old Kentucky Home;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbcdedE ACBC fdfdeeeE ghghgegEXACBC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,4,8,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010100 01110010101 11001011 01111010001 101110101 01111010101 11011011 111111010101 111010101 111110 111101 101111010101 1010101101 11111010101 101101101 11111010001 101101101 011110111001 01011101 01111010101 111010101 01111010101 01001011 01111010101 001101011 01111010101 11011001 01111110101 111010101 111110 111101 101111010101 1010101101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; all is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word night at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Old Kentucky Home;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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