This is an analysis of the poem The Family Party that begins with:
I SING the family party that once we used to know,
The old time family parties we gave so long ago, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbcc ccccddee eeffggXhXeebbhhaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11010010111101 01110010111101 11001010110101 0101010110111 0101011110101 0101010111100 1100011010101 11110100001101 0111110110101 11111010110101 1101110011101 10010101110101 1111010111101 1101110010101 11110101110111 01010101110101 01110010110011 01010110011101 1111110111111 1111110110101 11110010110101 0111011110111 11111101011110 1101010101110111 101111001110101 01111111010101 001110111010111 11011111110101 1111011101111111 101010101010101 111011101011101 1011100100010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 465
- Average number of words per stanza: 91
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you, cakes, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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