This is an analysis of the poem For My Daughter that begins with:
When I die choose a star
and name it after me...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcbaXcc aXddXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 111101 110101 1111 111010 10101 1010101 100111 11111 011 111 101110 10111111 1110111 1010110 010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines hand is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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