This is an analysis of the poem That Is All I Can Do that begins with:
Father...
I am doing the best I can, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBC baDC efggb efhheah ijhhg EBadgXbddiah kfeceXekgh aBCfc baDCCACDdadj EBaXih CA CDX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,5,7,5,12,10,5,12,6,2,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10 11100111 01111011 100111 10 01110 1011 1 1 1110101 11001101 1111110 1 1 1101010 0110 111101 1001001010 111010 00100100010 11110101 001110 001011 10010011 101 11100111 1101111110 1010010 111011 111 1011001 1101010 11101 100 1101001001010 11 11110111011 1011110110011 100101 11 1100100101 11111011 10100001101 11 11111111 110110010 10 11100111 01111011 1 001 11100111 10 01110 1011 1101111 110 011 1101 10100 0011010 1101 01111 101 11100111 11101111110 10 01010 100110 1101111 110 011 1101 101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 74
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
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 i, those are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of That Is All I Can Do;
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