This is an analysis of the poem O My Pa-Pa that begins with:
Our fathers have formed a poetry workshop.
They sit in a circle of disappointment over our fastballs...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcadXefegbdfXcXaXhceiXjfXkeebagXlhjjibjlkkfkjX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 48,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11011010011 1100100101010111 1111110111 1010001010111010 111111110101 110101011 00111011101 011101100011 001111001110 111101010111 1010111111001 001001111 0001101000101 110111101101 11001011110 11100101010 1111011011010 101010101 11011101001000 10101110110 001110101010 10010011101010 1110101111 1101101 11111111011 010101110011011 1101111001001 0100110110101 010110101110 10100010100 01101111011 1101100100101 1101101011111 110001010101010 0101101111111 11100110100010010 110111011101 1111111001110 010110100100 011111100110 10101101110 1011001011 111110001101 000101101 01010010111 011111111 00111101111101 101011011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2326
- Average number of words per stanza: 441
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; our, and, they, to, we, as, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, of are repeated.
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- summary of O My Pa-Pa;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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