This is an analysis of the poem The Responsibility Of Fatherhood that begins with:
BEFORE you came, my little lad,
I used to think that I was good, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaabXb cdcdefef babaaaaa ababagagXefefbbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111101 11011110 11010111 11010011 11111111 11111100 01011111 11111101 11010101 11110101 01111111 11110101 11111001 11011101 11010111 11110111 11110101 11111101 110011111 11111101 11010101 11011101 01111101 11010111 11110101 01111101 01110111 01011110 11010000 01111111 10110101 11011101 111001001 01100111 11011111 11110111 11110101 01110101 10010100 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 274
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words but, and, the are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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