This is an analysis of The Way To Know A Father by Robert Peter Tristram Coffin.
No man knows his father till he sees
His father in the son upon his knees;…
Browse poems by Robert Peter Tristram Coffin
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeaa ddff gghh
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 111010111 0100010101 0111010101 0100011101 11010101011 0101001111 0101011101 10110010001 101101100 01110101 0101010001 0101010011 1101010101 11010101101 1101010101 1101010111 0111111101 1101010111 11010111111 11111110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
his, father
Anaphora
what
