This is an analysis of the poem Written For My Son that begins with:
When Athens was for Arts and Arms renown'd,
Olympic Wreaths uncommon Merit crown'd....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaa ccdd eeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101111101 0101010101 1101000111 0101010001 10010101010 11010101010 1101110101 0101010101 1101000101 1111010101 1100110111 1101000101 1101111101 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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- summary of Written For My Son;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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More information about poems by Mary Barber
- Analysis of Written For My Son In His Sickness, To One Of His School Fellows.
- Analysis of Written For My Son To His Master, On The Anniversary Of The Battle Of The Boyne.
- Analysis of Written At Tunbridge—wells, To The Right Honourable The Lady Barbara North
