This is an analysis of the poem A Father To His Son that begins with:
A father sees his son nearing manhood.
What shall he tell that son?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcdceXXaXfXgcbhcbcabhdcgciiehgchXchXXcXifb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101011011 111111 10101001 10111101 1111110100 1110110010 11011110 10011010110 101111 1010101101 01001100011 101101101 010111010 1101110 011101001 111110111 1101001100 01010101101 1100011 01001101 1111011010 110001100110 101111010001 110101010010 10001100110 101011001010 001100101 1100011011101 1011101110101 11001110101 111011010 1110100100101 1010010110101 110010001010 00110011010100 1111011001010 111111101100 11110111 101100110 101011101010 101000010101 1001001 011101 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1718
- Average number of words per stanza: 318
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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, him are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, tell, let are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines himself is repeated).
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