This is an analysis of the poem My Fore-Elders that begins with:
When from the child, that still is led
By hand, a father's hand is gone, ---... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababaaccDD efefaabbDD ghghhhiidd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011101 11010101 110110101 11010101 11111101 11011111 11111011 11010111 000101010 11110101 11010111 01110001 01010111 01010111 10110101 11010101 10110111 01011101 000101010 11110101 11111101 0111011 11011101 11110011 11111111 11110011 11011101 11111101 01111111 11111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 362
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; their is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of My Fore-Elders;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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