This is an analysis of the poem Father And Son that begins with:
Father:
On these occasions, the feelings surprise, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb decebb afggfhigG dbh abhhjk djhddhhddff aeeggccddblmbaanfefmaeoeobdigG dd aeXppXpeelbllbh dh aliigbb de alhleheqqbbffnn ddd adkdkXkXcjj dlXal
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,9,3,6,11,30,2,15,2,7,2,15,3,11,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10 1101001001 0100111101 10000101 1 10111001100 11110101 010101100100 11010101101 011111011 10 111111111 1111011101 1101011011 1101110101 0100100101 11010010101 0101011111 1101001111 1 1111110100 1011001001001 10 1001010100 010010100001 1011111001 001001101011 011010010 1 1001 11001001101 110110010101 101001010101 1101011101 101101001011 10010101101 10110110001 10010100101 11001101011 10 0110101001 110101011 111010111 110010101001 01011110101 11011001111 1001011101 0101011011 1001100110 01010000100 0101000011 0011100111010 0111010110 10101011010 0100101001 10100010000101 100111010010 101101101 10110011 101110101010 1110111001 1111001010 11011111101 00100111001 001111101 0110010001 1001100101 11001111 1101001111 1 11101101001 10 1101101 1101111011 1100010100 1010101010100 11010011 011011100 1111011101 0101111101 1001001111 0010101001 10111111111 11111011111 010010101001 0011001101 1 0101111101 10 1111110111 11001110101 1101011101 11011001001 01001001111 010011010100 1 1111101100 10 11111101 11110111 01111111 11011111101 10010110101 0100010101 101101101111 1000100101 10100110110 010010101100 1010100101 1101010011 101111101 0100011011 1 10101010101010 110010110010 10 01010101010 10000101010 01110110110 100101010 10100 0111110 0110011000 111111100 1011110101 11111111 1 11011100100 10 010010001101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 286
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 130
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, of, and, one, in, at, your, guilt, face, on, always, must are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, the, you, i, done are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines face is repeated).
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