This is an analysis of the poem Johnnie Sayre that begins with:
Father, thou canst never know
The anguish that smote my heart...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaXXbXXbabXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101 0101111 111010001011 001010010 1000101011 1110100101010 1110110010 0111100110101 1101011111010 11111101010 00100110111100100 11101011 10000100100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 564
- Average number of words per stanza: 105
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, i, your are repeated.
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