This is an analysis of the poem Forgetful Pa that begins with:
My Pa says that he used to be
A bright boy in geography;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbccddeedXffbbaaaaggddaaddXXbbffdXdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 38,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111100 01100100 11110111 01010101 11010001 11011101 11010111 11110001 11101101 01010001 11111101 11111110 11111101 11010101 11010111 10110100 01011101 01010101 01011110 10010111 11111111 11000100 11011111 11011101 11111101 10101101 11010101 110011111 11011101 11010101 11011101 110011111 01010100 11110100 11111101 11110110 01011101 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1258
- Average number of words per stanza: 255
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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, an', thought are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is repeated.
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- history of its creation;
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