This is an analysis of the poem The Prodigal Son that begins with:
Young man—
Young man— ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAb bcdedaXc feg ahbice DDhe jkbg AAbajglbi kejlkbkbhgaajb AAaaAAaahcaabcclclaaihefabkiaecba baacbcca mbciXfmdnnma faaaonccoa Xaaaaacif
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,8,3,6,4,4,9,14,33,8,12,10,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 11 11110101 110100100111 0101111 10110101 10101010 110111111 11011 100 010111 1010110010 11100110100 1111101 10100100111 111101 101110001 110001 1110100101 110001110 1101 1101 110111100101 10111110 101110101 111001111001 0101101 1010110011101 11 11 1110001 11011010 11101 01011001011 11011111 11111111 1111011101 10101110001 1111110010 101011001111 01110010 11111010 11000111 1110110110 1110101111 1111000 10101111111 00101101 11100101 1111110101 1011101 11 11 110100101 11111010101 11 11 11100010101 0101100101 11101010101 0101011111 110110101 1110010101 1011100111 11011111 1110100101 10001001 11101001001 1010010101 111100100101 10100101 1010110110 1001110110 111010110010 011110101010 101010010110 1001011001 1110010010010 00100011101 00110100101 11110010 1111001 11111110 0010101 101110101 0101100101 1110101 111100101 1111010001011 1101001 110111101101 10100100101 10111001 1100111 0110111010 10100011101 101000110101 1001110110 101011011 111101011 11110101 101010101 1101110101 10100100 11110 111000010101 10010101 1000100101 10101111111 011101001011 101001011 111111111 110101100101 110101 111010101 1110100101 101011000101 011100101 011100101 11111 11011 1001110110
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 343
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 134
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, his, babylon, in, they, him, of, to, house, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words young, and, there, you, ev, the are repeated.
The author used the same words and, then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines man, time, babylon are repeated).
The poet repeated the same words country, babylon at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Prodigal Son;
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