This is an analysis of the poem A Poet's Father that begins with:

Welcker, I'm told, can boast a father great
And honored in the service of the State.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffffggbbcchhaaaaccXgiibb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1001110101 1100010001 1001010101 1101010101 1100010011 110101001001 1101010101 1011000101 1101100111 0111010101 0101010001 0101110101 0101101101 1001010101 0111010101 11011010101 01000000111 0101010001 01011000101 0101110100 101110101 0100110101 101010001 1100010001 1001110001 0111010101 0101000101 01001000101 0101111101 0101010001 0111011111 0111110111 1101000101 1101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1416
  • Average number of words per stanza: 247
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; to is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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