This is an analysis of the poem Fatherhood that begins with:
How's the little chap to know
Just the proper roads to go...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcddbc eebaffca fffaggga ffehXXah aaedeeXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 1010101 01101001 1110101 11101001 1110101 01101011 1111101 11101110 10111010 10101011 1011101 01101010 10101010 10101010 1010111 00101010 10110110 00100010 1111111 11111010 01111010 00100110 1011111 11101010 10101110 11111010 1010100 11101011 11110110 01111001 1111101 1011101 1111101 10101010 1010101 10111010 11101010 11111010 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; to, who, him, his, your, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words who, can are repeated.
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- summary of Fatherhood;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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