This is an analysis of the poem Daddies that begins with:
I would rather be the daddy
Of a romping, roguish crew,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcdcd ececfcfc fdfdafaf egegchch
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100010 0010101 0011101 1010111 10110010 0011101 10101010 0001101 11101110 1110111 10001110 10100101 10101010 1010001 11110010 1111101 11101110 1110101 11111110 1110101 11100110 1110001 11101010 10100101 11101010 11101110 11111010 00100110 11101010 0011101 10100010 10100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; may, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, and, you 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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- summary of Daddies;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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