This is an analysis of the poem To My Father (Upon His Retirement) that begins with:
In all the land our race was once excelling.
In richer regions it e'en now possesses...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abb caddXXdd caaceeaa affXbbgg dhhdeecc fccfeeaa XaaXiiaa cXXcjjaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011111010 010100101010 111101110110 1 1111101010 10101010101 0111110111 010100 1 11100 01110111110 11010101110 10011101010 10010111010 01001100010 11100001101 0101111101 011101001010 010010101010 010101001010 11010101010 1101111110 10111101100 1011010101 0101101101 10011101010 01010111010 01010011010 10010111010 11010111010 10011111101 1001011101 0111011101 11000100010 11110111010 11110101110 00110111010 10011111010 010011101110 1011110101 0101010101 110010001010 11010110010 11111111010 11110101010 11110101010 11011101110 1111111101 1111011101 11110101010 01011111010 11111111010 11011110010 11110100100 010111001010 1101001110 1101001101 11110111110 11110101010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 318
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; and, in, i, be are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
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