This is an analysis of the poem The Son's Sorrow that begins with:
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aaAbb cc aa dd dd cc ee eX ff aa aa ee aa bb aa cc aa gg ddXbbA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00010 011100110 111111001 11000101 110111101 11010101 11011101 1010110111 1101100111 1101000011 110011010 0100101010 111111111 11111101 11111101 11110101 01011101 11010111 10011111 11110100 1111101001 10110111 01110111 010101100 11111001 11010111 11100101 11110111 11110101 01011101 10110101 11011111 1110011101 01011111 11111111 11111111 01110011 01110111 10011111 11110101 11011101 10011111 11111101 01110111 11000101
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 74
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; thou, one, my, saddle, she, to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word one is repeated.
The author used the same word one at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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