This is an analysis of the poem To My Dear Little Boys, James, Christopher And Alfred that begins with:
Three lovely boys who bear my name,
Have all upon me equal claim,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbddaaeeffbgaa aaffhhbbee hhaaddididbbff jjXkjkbbddjXlglbii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,10,14,18,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 11011101 11010101 01010111 11001101 11011101 10011101 0100100101 11010101 11011101 10110101 01111101 01111111 01000101 11110101 11010101 11011101 01111100 11011111 11010111 11111101 111100101 100101010 111101010 11010101 10111101 01010101 11010111 11110001 11010111 1111101 01010111 11010101 11011001 111110010 110111010 11011101 11011101 11011001101 01001111 11010101 1101011010010101 11010101 11110111 11110101 11011101 00110101 01010111 11110111 11110111 10111101 11110101 10111101 110010111 11110011 111101100 11110101 01000100 11111101 00111111 11011101 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 542
- Average number of words per stanza: 106
- Amount of lines: 62
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; i, his, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word how is repeated.
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