This is an analysis of the poem A Father's Tribute that begins with:
I don't know what they'll put him at, or what
his post may be;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdeae afffXghg bieiacXc Xahagdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111111 0110 110101111101 01 111111001 11101 11110101111 101 101111111101 11 0111111111 1101 01010111010 101 11110101111 101 01111101011 111 1100111001110 1 101110010011 111 010011001100 01 0111010111 1101 010110010100 01 1011110101 1101 101111011100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 281
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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