This is an analysis of the poem Lines To My Father that begins with:
The many sow, but only the chosen reap;
Happy the wretched host if Day be brief, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gXgX hihi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01011100101 1001010101 1001010001 0101110101 0001110101 111011101 0101000101 0111011100 1101000011 1110111111 1101100101 11010111001 1011011100 0101011101 0001001111 01110101110 110101111 1101100101 0100011101 0101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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.
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