This is an analysis of the poem Prayer for My Father that begins with:
Your head is still
restless, rolling ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcadeXbfb begfcdfXfebcXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 1010 111 11001 010110 0011 1101 10 0111 01111 101 0011 11011 111 1111 011 0011 111 011 1111 01 100101 1011 0100 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 16 (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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