This is an analysis of the poem Son that begins with:

He hurried away, young heart of joy, under our Devon sky!
And I watched him go, my beautiful boy, and a weary woman was I....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd ccaa aaXX aaaa eeXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 110011101101101 111111100110101011 11101101110100101 11111101011111101 1111111111111101 00100111011110101 1110111011010101 11110010110101101 111011011111101001 11100100101101001001 1110111011110101 11110101011101011 1110010101010111101 111111110011111101 0101001111010110 110110010011111111 10111011111100111 101110010011100111 11101011110101111 110110010011101001 111110101001101101 1010011110110111001 1010110100111100011 1010010111101000110
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 292
  • Average number of words per stanza: 62
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 72 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 15
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, he, with, to, be are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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  • summary of Son;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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