This is an analysis of the poem Only A Dad that begins with:
Only a dad, with a tired face,
Coming home from the daily race,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaa ccddee ffggbb hhbbii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 100100101 10100101 10100111 011111101 1100110101 011110101 100100101 10110111 100100101 100110101 0100100111 1010111101 100110111 10100101 10100101 101101101 100100101 1100110100 100111101 010110101 10010111 011010011 000111111 100110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 219
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; his, of are repeated.
The author used the same word only at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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