This is an analysis of the poem To My Father's Business that begins with:
Leo bends over his desk
Gazing at a memorandum ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcdeXfgghXihXXajiXfhfXfXeikljclgjXmfallldddllejedldcbhXmXfhXnnnnlkkibXl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 73,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011001 10101010 111011 00110 1010111 1001 0111011 111111 10100100 01110110100 1110 0111001010010 101011 100101110 1000 110110 1110101 101110 1010110101 11100101 1011001 11001001 1110101111 11010001010 10111111001 111101011010 101101 111110 1001001010010 1011101 111111010 110110 11011001 110110 01010 1001110 1011011 110111 1111101 01001 1110101 11101001 01010 1011010 1101010010 1010101 11111 111001 11100100100 1101 101010 010001 0101010 101101101 111000 110001 11101 1010010111 111011 011111 1011010101 111001000101101 11101 110101 1101111101 1111110001 1001 11111 11010 010101 1110011111 1101000101 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2138
- Average number of words per stanza: 398
- Amount of lines: 73
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, i, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines job is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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- summary of To My Father's Business;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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