This is an analysis of the poem Father's Letter that begins with:
I 'm going to write a letter to our oldest boy who went
Out West last spring to practise law and run for president;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaa ddeeaaff ggeeffee ggcchhaa ccbbiiii aacXjjXa iiddddXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1010010100110111 111010101111101 111110101111101 11111011110101 1100001101010111 0100001010110011 11010111110101 111111111110101 111111101010111 11000111011101 101010101110111 101010100110101 1011111101100101 0100110101010111 111110101111101 011111111111111 110111111111001 1110110110111 11110100100111 01011110110001 01011101110101 11010101010101 11010111010111 11111100111011 01010101010101 11111001111001 01111111011101 1111001011111001 111110101011101 11011101010111 111011101110101 111010101110111 1101010010101 1111010010101 01010101010101 101011101010101 10101010010001 10111100011101101 11111101110101 01010101010101 110111111111001 111111111010101 111011101110111 11011111110101 111111100111001 1111111101010111 11011111010101 1111101010110111 11110101010111 11000100110111 0101010110111 01110101010101 10110101011001 10110101000101 11110101010001 11110101101010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 480
- Average number of words per stanza: 94
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, i, for, and, 's, he, him, that, 'll are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, that, the, and 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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