Analysis of Going Home
The old man pulls his collar up,
exhales white clouds.
His oars dig into cold water.
Foam is a fringed skirt beneath the boat.
Near shore a swarm of gnats hover,
a halo over warm mud.
His eyes drink in the bleak sky,
the leafless, charcoal tree.
| Scheme | ABCDCEFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01111101 111 11101110 110110101 11011110 0101011 1110011 01011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 238 |
| Words | 47 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 190 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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