This is an analysis of the poem Father And Son that begins with:
Only last week, walking the hushed fields
Of our most lovely Meath, now thinned by November,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababa cdcbc efdfd gXgegXaagag
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110011 011101111010 11010101001 001101111110 1001011101 11010111 0110110110010 10100101011 1110001101110 101100011011 1100101101 1110101101110 1101101111101 1010011011010 1101111100001 1111011111 111111101010 1111110001 11111111010011 111011101 111111101101 11010011110 10011111111 01110110110 11001010111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, in, with, and are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase breaks connects the lines.
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