This is an analysis of the poem Anecdote For Fathers that begins with:
I HAVE a boy of five years old;
His face is fair and fresh to see;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef fefe gaga hihi ihih XibX bibX dXXb ibiX abaX gege cbcXXgege
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010101 01011101 01110101 110111 11111111 11011101 11110001 111101 11110101 110100101 110110101 011101 01011111 11010101 01110001 111101 01110001 01110101 01011111 011101 11011111 01010101 111101001 110101 11011111 11000101 11111101 010100 11111101 11111101 110111011 111101 01011111 11111101 11111100 111101 11010111 11010111 11011111 1001011 11111111 11011100 11111101 111011 10111101 11011101 11100111 110111 01111101 01011101 010111001 011101 10010101 11010001 11111101 11011 11010111 11011101 11110101 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 60
- 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; to, ' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words his, a, from, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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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