This is an analysis of the poem When Pa Comes Home that begins with:
When Pa comes home, I'm at the door,
An' then he grabs me off the floor...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbbccddbbbX ddXXbbbaaeebbXX bbdddddeedXbbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,15,15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 11111101 11111101 11111111 110110101 10101011 11110101 110111101 01111101 11110111 110110101 11111111 11111101 11111101 110100101 11110111 01011111 11110101 110111011 11111101 111101111 11010100 110110101 11110101 10111101 11110101 11001101 11110101 11010101 01010011 11111111 10110011 11010111 11010101 11110111 11110101 11111101 11110111 11010101 11110111 01111101 11111101 11010101 11111101 1100111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 530
- Average number of words per stanza: 108
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; an', me, you, my, your, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words an', me are repeated.
The author used the same word an' at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase me connects the lines.
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