This is an analysis of the poem A Successful Dad that begins with:
OTHERS may laugh at my feeble endeavor
To capture life's prizes, and others may sneer;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcac dedefefe XgXgaeae XeXehihi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111110010 01011011011 011110011110 010011001101 0101011010100 11101111001 1110011111010 1110010111001 010111011001 01011101001 010010011010 11011011011 010110111010 11011001111 111010010110 111011101011 1110010010000 110011001111 1110111111010 00011001001 1100111010110 11001011011 1110111110010 01011011011 111011111100 11001111001 100111010110 101001001111 111110111010 11011101101 1111110111110 001011001001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 367
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 32
- 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; may, i, 'm, it, be, she, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, she, and are repeated.
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