This is an analysis of the poem Because My Father's One that begins with:
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaabbXb XcdceaXa fagafhIX XbibbaXX dXeaghIX ejajfjij dkdkjhfh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010 111101 1101010 010101 0100110 1111001 0111110 111111 1111110 110101 1100010 011101 1101011 110111 1111011 110101 1111010 111111 1111110 110111 1101110 111101 1100010 100101 1101100 110101 1111010 110111 0111110 111101 1101010 1011010 1111011 100111 1101111 011001 0100111 110111 1100010 100101 1101011 110111 1111010 1101011 1111110 111011 100101 111101 1111011 011011 1110110 111001 1111011 1011001 10101010 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 225
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; they, and, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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