This is an analysis of the poem My Father that begins with:
was a truly amazing man
he pretended to be...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXdX XcaeeeafaX fgcX gdhX bfe hffad gXhhd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,10,4,4,3,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100101 101000 1 101111111110 11110111 10101011110 10111000110111000 1111 111100100 111011001101 111 11110111001101 11101 1010111010100 11111110101 101000011110 1101110111010 0101 10101001111001 111001 110101 111101110111 1110 111001110 1111110011000 11 111111 1101110101 111101 1111111 10100100 1010 101 11100001 101010100 110010100 10
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, voted, and, i, to, like are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, never, like are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines oddities is repeated).
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- summary of My Father;
- central theme;
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