This is an analysis of the poem Dear Father that begins with:
Why did you part me from yourself, dear father, why?
You've given houses with two stories to my brothers,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbaXcXcXcbcXcXcA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110101101 1101001100110 101010111101 1101111011 01101101110110 1111010110 1111010011110 1111011 01110101110 111111101 11001101110 11100101010 1101011110 110101000100 111101001110 101110101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 761
- Average number of words per stanza: 140
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; why, to, father, dear are repeated.
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