This is an analysis of the poem Noonday Grace that begins with:
MY good old father tucked his head,
(His face the color of gingerbread)...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbbX cc dedXeed deeX fff bbb cc gXg hh fff ede hhhhhhh ii jj gg gX cc aaa ggggg cccccc dX ee kkk ll cc kkk mm ed Xaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,2,7,4,3,3,2,3,2,3,3,7,2,2,2,2,2,3,5,6,2,2,3,2,2,3,2,2,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10110101 010100101 1001011011 1100100111 11111011 11110001 11010111 11101101010 100100101 11000101 11110100 11110110 01110100 11011100 11111111 11110101 11111100 1111100 110011111 11010111 11010100 11011101 101100111 010110101 11011011 110100101 11010101 11111101 011110111 1101001110 110101110 0101110110 101111101 010101101 1101101001 1010011101 11110011 11110111 11110100 1110100101 11110101 11010101 1111001 11010111 11010101 0010010111 110101101 1011101 11110111 01011101 010101111 1111100 11011100 10011101 1100111010 11010101 010101011 01010101 10111101 011101001 111101001 11110100 100010101 11110001 11011101 11001101 01010101 010111010 010011101 11010101 11010101 110010100 01010101 1101100101 01110101 11011101 01111101 1100101101 111111111 11011111 11010111 11010011 101100101 11011101 10010111 111011101 111100101 111011110 11110110 111111001 111111011
- Amount of stanzas: 30
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 119
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; his, thy, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and, the are repeated.
The author used the same word there's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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