This is an analysis of the poem The Fathers that begins with:
Our fathers all were poor,
Poorer our fathers' fathers;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcabdceeed cfgfcgebheXeh gbbgXdgdiig
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,13,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 1011010 011111 10111 0101110 011001 010001 110101 1011001 101101 010001 010101 110111 100101 110101 0101011 010101 1101001 111101 1011001 110001 100101 110101 101101 101101 110101 100111 101111 1100101 110101 0100101 111101 1101011 0111011 1101001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 306
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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- summary of The Fathers;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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