This is an analysis of the poem One Home that begins with:
Mine was a Midwest home—you can keep your world.
Plain black hats rode the thoughts that made our code. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa bcb dXd aXa acX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 11011111111 1111011111 11100101111 0111100101011 11111001001 1101011101001 0111111101001 11110110110 011001011001001 010011111111 100100111101 11111011111 011101101101 10101111011 01011011111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of One Home;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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