This is an analysis of the poem Ancestor that begins with:
It was a time when they were afraid of him.
My father, a bare man, a gypsy, a horse...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdcbefggfXccbcaabacbaXbhiighXicjddaefaeaafcXcbgafgj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 53,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011100101 11001101001 01011111 1011110101 111010111 0111100011 1001110110 11101111110 110010100 1111111010001 111101110 10110101001 11110111 1100111101 011001010101 10111010110 101111111001 1111101000 1010011010111 10100101111 011101010 010100111010 1110100100 01010101010010001 010100101 10010101010101 1111111010 10111011101 1101101100101 110111011 11101110101111 111111111 110111011101 1011101101000111 1110011110011001 1101001101100101 111011011110 11011111101001 0010001010101 1111110110 111011011101 00100110111 111011111011 1111110 11001101011 10110100101 10111100101 1110100101 011101100110 1100110111111 11010100101010 01101111 100111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2504
- Average number of words per stanza: 478
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; and, hands, that, not, our, love, he, we, to, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, beyond, my are repeated.
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- summary of Ancestor;
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- idea of the verse;
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