This is an analysis of the poem Home In War-Time that begins with:

SHE turn’d the fair page with her fairer hand—
More fair and frail than it was wont to be— ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaXbbacddcee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1101100101 1111101100 1110011101 1101100101 0100010111 1100011101 1101011101 1101010101 0100010101 11010011101 1111110011 01011010101 1101111101 01010101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 613
  • Average number of words per stanza: 122
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; d is repeated.

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