This is an analysis of the poem After The Play that begins with:
Father
Have you spent the money I gave you to-day?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab cdbd a ecec c fgfg hghg eiei cgcg jkjk bjbj cfcf cc a c c cc gfgf a fcfc glgl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,1,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,2,1,1,1,2,4,1,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10 11101011101 1 11011 01011110101 001011 10 010101011101 11111 1011110111 11110 1 111101101001 00111 010101110101 01101 10111110010 1101 011011001010 1001 10101110001 1011 0111010100101 1111 10100110101 10001 11110101101 10111 10110101111 10111 10101001101 11001 11010110011 1101 1101010111 1111 1011011101 11111 11111101011 011001 10111110001 10111 10 1111 1 11101111 10110 111111111 1111 01011111001 10101 10 1011111111 10101 100101011001 11111 1111111101 11101 0111110111 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 88
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The author used the same word father at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines john is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word john at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase john connects the lines.
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