This is an analysis of the poem To My Daughter that begins with:
O little one, daughter, my dearest,
With your smiles and your beautiful curls,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab bbbb cbcb dbdb efef gbgb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110110 011111001 1110010110 11011001 0111110110 1111110110 1110011010 01011011 0111010110 001001001 111101010 11101001 0110010010 111011111 0110011010 011001001 1111110010 11001011 1110110110 110011001 111110011 11011011 111111111 11011001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; and, your, that, than, with, so, i, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i are repeated.
The author used the same word with at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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