This is an analysis of the poem A Father's Thoughts that begins with:
Because I am his father, they
Expect me to put grief away;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeffffaa XaggaahX ffggggii jjddeekk lleeddhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110101 01101101 01110111 10110111 01011101 01010111 11111101 01111111 11010111 11011101 11010101 11110111 11010111 11010101 11011101 10110101 11010111 01010101 11011101 11110001 11011101 11110111 11010011 11110101 01001111 01010101 11010101 11110001 01010111 11011101 11110101 01110111 11010100 11111101 11010111 11010111 110010111 11001101 01110111 11111111 11011111 01010111 11010111 01001101 11010111 10010111 01011111 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 274
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; and, you, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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