This is an analysis of the poem Nell Flaherty’s Drake that begins with:

MY NAME it is Nell, right candid I tell,
And I live near a dell I ne’er will deny, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdcXc ebfbXcXc ffXfccXc Xecegchc cadafXgc dbhbicic XdecgcXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1100111011 11110111001 1101101101 11101111001 111011111101 01011111101 1100100110110 11011001001 0101111001 111101001001 0101101101 111111011101 011010011010 111101011101 111010010110 11011001001 101101101101 101111001001 101101101101 101101111101 101101101011 11101001101 101011101001 00111011001 101011101011 101001111011 101011101111 101111101011 101101101011 101011111011 101011101001 001011011001 101101101101 101001101011 1101011010101 111101110111 111001101011 111111001010 101011101101 0111011001 101111011011 101111101101 1010111101001 11101101011 110111111101 110011101101 1110111101011 01011011001 10100111001 0010111001 110110111110 111011011001 1111110010110 11111111001 011110111110 11101011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3039
  • Average number of words per stanza: 551
  • Amount of lines: 62
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, may, his, never, have, be, he, him, and, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word may is repeated.

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