This is an analysis of the poem A Poem for My Father (96 years old on Feb. 29, 2000) that begins with:
With exact wings
Your words sailed back ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbcdefgehabaabhXXdaa fbXX eecagXdcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0011 1111 00111 1110 111 101010 101101 11010001 0110110100 1011011 1101011 10111 11011101 0111111110 101100100 1110111 01111 1010101 1111110 010101 0101011 10011 01001 0111 111 010 10101110 00100011 11111001 1110001 11010100 11101 111011101 10011 0110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 307
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; i is repeated.
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