This is an analysis of the poem My Father Laughing in the Chicago Theater that begins with:
His heavy body would double itself forward
At the waist, swell, and come heaving around...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXcXXdd XecXeafeX aXXfefeXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 010101100110 1011111001 01101010011 11110110110 101101110010 11011010101 1010101011011 0111101101 111111001001 1110111101110 010110100010 010111101110 1101110101 110100110010 010000101001 0111001110 01001001111 1111111101101 11111101101 00101111101 010110111001 11001101111 110111111101 10110011010 1101000101 110111101101 100100101011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 415
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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