This is an analysis of the poem Father that begins with:
Used to wonder just why father
Never had much time for play, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacac dedefbfb gcgcdcdc hbhbdbdb XbXbgege
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101110 1011111 10101110 1101001 10101110 10010111 10101010 1011101 10101010 1010101 10111010 1110101 11101110 1010111 11111010 1010101 11111110 1110101 10111110 1110111 10101010 1110101 11110010 1110101 10101110 0110101 11111010 1010101 11110010 1111101 11101010 1110101 10101010 1010111 10101010 1111111 11101010 1110101 10111110 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 249
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 40
- 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; i, to, saw are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word father is repeated.
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