This is an analysis of the poem On My First Son that begins with:
Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy;
My sin was too much hope of thee, lov'd boy.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaabccabdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111011111 1111110111 100101011111 0101111011 1111110111 0101011110 0111101111 1011010011 1011111111 1100110100 1111110101 1111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 531
- Average number of words per stanza: 105
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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