This is an analysis of the poem The Return Of The Heroes that begins with:
For the lands, and for these passionate days, and for myself,
Now I awhile return to thee, O soil of autumn fields,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabcb ddXb X XeafaadXeaadad X bacaXcbfgachf X dijh idfi aj aXc kgglma X daj ldk jaab X akc aad aXmj ccki aag aana X fhg bca aa fhd enkgkoad X dfp fp Xaddaol fc cgdXgbnaaaeaanb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,1,14,1,13,1,4,4,2,3,6,1,3,3,4,1,3,3,4,4,3,4,1,3,3,2,3,8,1,3,2,7,2,15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10111110011111 11010101110101 010111101101 10001001111001 100111 111111010101 110011110101 110110011100101 010111 1 100101 0101110010 10010101 111101110101 0101010101010011 0101010101001 01001010001 01010010001000 0100001011100 01011101011001010010 0110010101001 010101011101110 01011101110011 010101011101110 1 10010001 1111010111 110101111101010 11010101010 0100101110001111110 1111100101110001 11100101101001110101010011110101 1100011100 11110010 1101000101 110111000101101011111011101 100011011001010010111010 1110011100110111001101100 1 11111111 10010110100100101101 001001001011 110111010110 111111 1010101010101 1010010010101001010 11010100101 111101010111010 110101010101110 11110101101001 011011101101110 10111111110111 1110101 1110101101010010 101010111101010 11100110011010100110 11111000101010101 11101010 1 1111010 101101011011101111010111 10101 1010111111010 111010011100111 1010100100010110 111011010 1010110111 1100101111110111111010 110010110011 1 11010010010 1010100111001 011111 110010001110010010 11001010010010 101011110010100101 110110101100 11101001011111 1001001011101 01110011101 010101 01010101001 01111111011111 111101 011101001 1111001111001 11111100 11011100111110 01110111101101 10010111111111 0101111101 1 11111111 010011010110 01011101100100 1101100101011 1101010011111111 110011010 110101101 1111001101010 11101001 0110110111 110101000010 10010111010 10101101001 101100110101001 1010011110101100 111010110111 11001010101100101 110100100110 1001111001000100101 1 111010010 1011111101001 00101110111 111011100101 01001111101101 1101001100 100100111010 0100101001010100 10010010001001101001011 011010011011001 01010011100111010010101001011 1000101101010110110 01111010 011110111101010 1101110 11111100101111100100 101110110101001 1011011010101011011110 1001001010101010011101 100100100101011100111 100100100100100101 101101011011010001 10010010101101011101001011010101010 1010101011010 101001011110110010 101101111000111001001 1111001111111 1001011101
- Amount of stanzas: 36
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 208
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 140
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- 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; for, and, o, of, all, thou, lookest, hospitable, nor, your, with, army, in, i, saw, wars, see, toil, on, harvest, under, to, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, the, thou, as, nor, i, a, and, harvest are repeated.
The author used the same words pass, i, toil at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines army, wait, harvest are repeated).
The poet repeated the same words thee, you at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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