This is an analysis of the poem To My Father Supposed To Be Dying-September, 1841 that begins with:
My dear, afflicted parent! Ere thine eyes
Are closed in death, accept this tribute due... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eaea cfcf ghgh dcdc iiii XcjX cccX jgjg fafa kiki djdj dcdc ckck ecec gigi djdj lala iiii ilil cmcm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010111 1101010101 0110111101 1111011111 1101011101 1111010101 1011011001 11001011101 1101111111 1101110101 11010101111 1101011101 1111110101 1101011101 111100110101 11011001001 0101111001 0111010111 11110010111 01111101001 1111111111 1111011101 0111001101 1111110101 0101001101 01110101010 1111110111 01010010110 11010010101 1111011101 0101011001 1111011101 1110011001 00010101001 1111010101 11101111010 11010111001 1110110011 1101010101 1011011101 11010100001 11010101001 1111100101 11010110101 1111010111 1111011101 0101110101 0101010111 1101011111 1100110111 1101110101 11000011111 1101010101 1101010101 1101111101 0101110101 1101110111 0101011101 0110110101 1101011001 1111010011 1111111101 1101110111 0110011101 1101010101 01001111100 1101010111 1101010011 1111110101 1111010101 11110101001 0101100101 1111110001 01010001101 0111111101 0101111101 0101010001 1111010101 1101011111 1101100101 11010110100 0101010111 1011110111 01011010001 1111010101 0101000100 1111011101 0011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 88
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, be, he, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same word my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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