This is an analysis of the poem Noble Father that begins with:

When the cotton flowers bloom,
O noble father,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XAbA cdXecXAbA bdfeggAbA efXXXeAdeA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,9,9,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010101 11010 1110111 11010 1101011111 010110101010 10101010 01110100101 01001111 010101 11010 111111 11010 111111 0101010 101011 1001010001 1110110111 1101 11010 1111011 11010 111011 0101 11111 001110 111101 110001 11010 011011010 1010101 11010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 221
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, its, your are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word father at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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