This is an analysis of the poem A Father's Wish that begins with:
What do I want my boy to be?
Oft is the question asked of me,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaXccddee fghhggiijjee kkeeeeffjjee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11111100 10010101 11110011 11011111 00110111 01110101 10110101 11010101 10110011 00010101 11111101 11011001 11011101 01011111 11110111 01010101 11111101 01111101 11111001 11010101 11010111 10110111 11011101 11111001 11111111 11111101 11000111 11010101 11010101 10110001 10010101 01011001 110001101 10110111 11111111 01110001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 392
- Average number of words per stanza: 82
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; or, and, be, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i 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.
The poet repeated the same word man at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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