This is an analysis of the poem Follow A Famous Father that begins with:
I follow a famous father,
His honor is mine to wear;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcbddXd AeeeXfXf AgfgccXc Ahfhdfef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001010 0100101 1110111101 0111101 11001011 1100101 1111100111 10111111 11001010 1100111 111111101 0100101 11001010 1100111 1010111101 0101001 11001010 1100101 110100101 10100101 110010101 1101101 1111110111 0101101 11001010 1111101 1010111101 0111101 011101110 0110111 1110110101 01011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 258
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, to, and, i, it, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word it is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase it connects the lines.
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