This is an analysis of the poem All My Pretty Ones that begins with:
Father, this year's jinx rides us apart
where you followed our mother to her cold slumber; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXcdcdee fgfgdhdhaa iXigajajcc keke kikbb agaglklhee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,4,5,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 100111101 111011000110 01011001011 101101011000 10010011101 0111100101 1010101101 0111010000100 100100101111 1111110111 10111110010 111111011 10010111101 101011010101 11010101101 00110100101 00111110111 1100010111101 110111101101 11000111101 00010111101 011111101110 101111011001 0101100011011 110101101001 111001111 1101101111 0101101000111 10111110111 11110111011 110110101010 11110101101 100101101110 101101001101 11110010111 10111101111 1101001110101 1111111011010 111100111110 1101110011101 1101011111 0110101001101 1111101101 011011111 0101000110100 10110111101 100010101001 101110111111 11111011011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 385
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, i, this, for, here, my, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word here is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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