This is an analysis of the poem Becoming A Dad that begins with:
Old women say that men don't know
The pain through which all mothers go,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaaaccbb ddaaeeffggdd bbhhffbbbbff bbbbiibbffgg jjcchXaagghX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 01111101 11010111 11110101 01111101 111101101 11011111 11010111 11011111 01110101 11010101 11010111 11000111 11010101 11011111 11110101 11110101 01010111 00111101 110101000 100100111 11111101 100100101 11110101 11011101 11011001 11110101 11111101 11111101 11111101 11011101 11011101 11011101 11010011 11010101 010101001 11000111 11010101 01011101 11111101 11001101 01010101 11111111 11110111 11011101 01110111 100100101 11011101 11110101 11010101 11011101 010100111 11111101 11011101 010100111 11010101 11110101 01110001 11000101 11100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 416
- Average number of words per stanza: 82
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i, my are repeated.
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