This is an analysis of the poem Sweet Stay-At-Home that begins with:
Sweet Stay-at-Home, sweet Well-content,
Thou knowest of no strange continent; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddaaaaeeffXXccggcceehhii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111110 110011100 11111101 01010001 111101001 111101001 11110111 110111111 11110101 11111011 101100111 11111101 01010011 11111111 11111101 11010101 11110100 11111111 11011101 01110101 11111101 11111101 110111010 111111110 11101111 11011111 11111101 10110101 11110111 11010011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1164
- Average number of words per stanza: 214
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; sweet is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words thou, nor, sweet are repeated.
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