This is an analysis of the poem To A Daughter Leaving Home that begins with:
When I taught you
at eight to ride...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcadXcbbXcbdXaXXccXcXcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 1101 01001001 011 111001 1111 11110 001111 01101 1001 1110 101 01111 10011 111 101100 010 1010 11110 010 0110 01110 10010 11
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 445
- Average number of words per stanza: 80
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 18 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 3
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of To A Daughter Leaving Home;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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