This is an analysis of the poem The Only Son that begins with:
O bitter wind toward the sunset blowing,
What of the dales tonight?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX abaX bX bX aX aX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101110 100101 010111110110 110101 001101011100 111111 01110110110 1011001 11011111110 110111 1111001110 111111 10010111110 111101 10011101110 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 98
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 19
- 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 speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; what is repeated.
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- summary of The Only Son;
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