This is an analysis of the poem Bigger Than His Dad that begins with:
He has heard his country calling, and has fallen into line,
And he's doing something bigger than his daddy ever did;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb dada ebeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111010101110001 111010101010100 111010101010101 111010100110101 01011100010001 111110101110101 01010101010001 01011101010111 11011100010101 11111111111100 111010100110101 101010111111101 11111111110101 0010101011001001 110110101110111 01111101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; has, and, than, i, of are 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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