This is an analysis of the poem Fruit Of The Flower that begins with:
My father is a quiet man
With sober, steady ways;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacac dada eXeX XaXa dXdXXeded
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11000101 010101 1100101 011101 11010100 110100 01111101 110101 11110111 110110 11010101 011101 11110101 1001010 11010101 1101100 11110110 010001 01010101 111101 11110101 111110 01110101 111100 11010101 110111 11010101 110011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words and, why at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Fruit Of The Flower;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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