This is an analysis of the poem Potato Blossom Songs And Jigs that begins with:
RUM tiddy um,
tiddy um,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbcdefgbhBbX XdbXciejbbX bgXXichXcjeh fbi j Xbjbge fXceijihbbBdbbifi bX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,11,12,3,1,6,17,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 101 10111 111111110111 111101100110101011010101 1011010110101111011101101011010101111111110 11111110 111101011001 110101110101 111101 011010 1111110 11000101011100101 111110100110101110 010101111 010010101 011011100111 0101111100010010001111011011110111011000101101 10100101 111111100100110101111111 10101011001100 101110101011001 0101 01011010 01001010101110101 01101101011100010110110101010010111110011100110011101010101011000110101 0100101 1100101000 11011 110110101010 111111101 111010 0111110101010 111001111001 10101011010 011111010 1111101100111101110 1010111011 0101110010100010 0111101011011 11111101111110010111010 10101011101101101111 101011111010101010 1100011101101100101 1111010100100101010 111001110 01010010 0001111011011100010001011101011011001111 000111110101010110111010101 101010011010100101000101010001 010001010111011001010101011010010 00011111101001 010011010010 0101010011 1011110 10111011 11001010001 1111110 1101100110 11010101010011101 1100010101010011101 1111011011 011100101110010011 01000101100100101010011001100100011001001 1000101011100101 1011000101101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 517
- Average number of words per stanza: 95
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; tiddy, um, and, i, why, you, of, roan, horse, in, over are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words tiddy, i, the, summer, it, and are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines um is repeated).
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