This is an analysis of the poem Fatherly 'Love' that begins with:

Hellish beast hunts the night
Stealing loved ones from my sight...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbcc aadd eeff ggdd aahh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101101 1011011 0010101 1110101 1001001 10110111 110101 11001011 1111011 1010011 1001101 1110101 0010110011 011100101 11011101 111101 111111 0101010011 11011101 11100111 1101001 011101 111111 101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of Fatherly 'Love';
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