This is an analysis of the poem Priest At The Serapeum that begins with:

My dear old father,
who always loved me the same;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbX bcccdbadX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110 1111101 11110101 1101011011011 1010011010 001011 0111010111 011011 1111011 1111101 11011110 11110100101 0110100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; in, all, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

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