This is an analysis of the poem Their Daughters that begins with:
Paracetamol legends I know
For rising fevers, as pain-relievers—...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xa aabXbcdX aeXXbX ad eXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,8,6,2,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100001011 1101011010 0110101010 10111010010 011011101 10111001111 100111011111 101010101111 1100101101101 01010010101101010 0111011101 110100011110111 10111110011101 11011101001010 1101110101010111 101010111110010 1110 1010011 1101 1100100101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; s, of, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
The author used the same words of, we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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