This is an analysis of the poem Let Daddy In that begins with:
The baby had a drunken father,
And he left the child to die. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aba bX cd X e eX ee c eX f df dg cg X e de da ca X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,2,1,1,2,2,1,2,1,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,2,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101010 1110101 01101110 1000111 1111111100 111100101 110111010 11111101 1101010100 11010101 1010111010 1010101 110101110 1010101 110111010 11111101 111101110 110101001 010101010 1010101 011101010 1010101 110101010 11111101 110101110 1011101 110101010 1010001 110101010 1010101 110101010 1100101001
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 59
- Average number of words per stanza: 11
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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