This is an analysis of the poem Night In The Old Home that begins with:
When the wasting embers redden the chimney-breast,
And Life's bare pathway looms like a desert track to me, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcX eXeX dXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010100101 1111111010101 10111001011011 1101011011101 1111001011010 11110011010100 011001011110 1001001010100 1101110011001 0111011111100 1100101011001 11111010110100101 111001001101011 10110101101101100 10101101011011 1101101001101100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 235
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (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; and, to, ' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase ' connects the lines.
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