This is an analysis of the poem Sires And Sons that begins with:
Wild wanton Luxury lays waste the land
With difficulty tilled by Thrift's hard hand!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaaaabbccdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101001101 01000101111 1101100101 0101110101 0110101101 11010101101 1111000101 1111011101 1011000101 1101000101 01001000111 0101010001 1101000101 1011110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 591
- Average number of words per stanza: 102
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; at is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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