This is an analysis of the poem My Father's Halls that begins with:
My father's halls, so rich and rare,
Are desolate and bleak and bare;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 11001111 11011111 11111111 11010101 11011101 01100101 11101101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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 is repeated.
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