This is an analysis of the poem What Father Knows that begins with:
My father knows the proper way
The nation should be run;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbdb eXeXXfgf dfdfbefe gagagfcf bdbdXbdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 010101 111101001 111101 11010101 110101 10010101 1101001 11000111 111101 11011101 111111 110001101 011011 10100101 110101 11010101 110101 11110101 110101 01000111 110101 11110101 011111 01111101 011101 11010111 110101 11110101 1111110 11010101 1101010 01010101 110101 11010101 110111 1101111101 11001010 1101110 1101110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of What Father Knows;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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