This is an analysis of the poem Our Fathers Of Old that begins with:
Excellent herbs had our fathers of old--
Excellent herbs to ease their pain--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXcbcbaa adaddXdXaa acacedeXaa aaaafafaa dXdXgcgccaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,9,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001111001 10010111 10101101 1001011000 101001001 11100111 101001101 101001001 1011111001 111001011001 1001111001 1001001101 011100101 101100101 1101001001 1001101010 111011001 11100101 101100111 001001011001 100101101 100101101 11100111 101101101 10101101001 111001001 111011110 101111111100 10101101 1001111001 1101011001 110101101 111101101 1110100111 1101001101 110100111 100101101 1111101 0001111001 000101101 110100111 10101011101 11001101110 10001101 10001101 1101011111 110101111 111 1011011011 1101011001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 381
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, as, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words excellent, wonderful, who, yes, then, we are repeated.
The author used the same word wonderful 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 old is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word old at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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