This is an analysis of the poem Father's Chore that begins with:
My Pa can hit his thumbnail with a hammer and keep still;
He can cut himself while shaving an' not swear;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcccC dedefcfc bcXcgcgC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11110110010111 11101110111 001010111110101 11111110101 101010111110101 10111010101 111011100110101 10100010101 11010101010101 11011100101 101010101010011 0101011101 101010111010111 11101011101 001010101110101 11101000101 101000110011101 0100010101 111010100010111 11100010101 101011100110011 00101000101 111010101110011 10100010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 423
- Average number of words per stanza: 82
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, can, it are repeated.
The author used the same word my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word front at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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