This is an analysis of the poem Dad's Philanthropic Plan that begins with:
I knew an old philanthropist, a farming man was he,
Shrewd at a deal, but still withal a man of charity.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbb ccaX ddbb eedd eeee ddbb ccdd ffee aXbb XXdX eXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11110100010111 11011110010100 11111101010111 11011011110101 11010100010111 01101101010101 11110100011111 11010111111000 100010100011101 11111101110101 01011010110101 101101000010111 111000101110101 11111111011101 01110101110011 110101001010001 11001101110101 11010101010001 110111011100101 11010101010101 11100101100111 11010101110111 11110100110111 01000111010111 1010101001101 11010001110111 01110101010111 01011100010101 1010101111111 11010001110101 11110100110101 11110001110111 11111001110101 10010001010111 11011011010111 11111111000101 11110101111111 11110101010001 11110011110111 10111111110101 011101011000011 11011111110010 11010101110111 11010101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 233
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 54
- 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; and, to, you, ' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same word 'josiah at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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