This is an analysis of the poem The Kelly Gang that begins with:

Oh, Paddy dear, and did you hear
The news that's going round,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdefegbdbXXhaidcdbjdXkbcblicXibibafgfdmimdmfmXbXbdecXdjbJdjfjnfhfhfofafffXifiiobodjfjdifigmfmXjXJfafadbfblgdgcafagkfkcbpbbmfmglnXbafagimifkpkbbgbbqcqdiiinmlm
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 160,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011011 011101 10101110 1111101 11111111 1101101 10011101 010111 11011101 011001 11011010 1110101 01011001 110101 11011100 110101 100101001 1100111 11010100 01101 01010101 1101011 11010101 011101 11010001 011001 10101110 011001 1111011 110111 11111110 1011110 01010101 110101 01111101 110111 0101011 1100101 111111111 110101 01110101 011111 01010101 110101 01011101 010011 10001101 1101001 1111110 010101 1111000 1010111 1111110 111101 1100010 11111010 1100010 0111001 1101010 0101001 0100010 110001 101010100 1100001 110010101 110101 11010001 110001 1011110 1101110 11010101 1101010 11011101 111101 1101010 1110101 01010100 110101 1101010 1010001 010101001 111111 01010101 110101 11110110 111101 11110111 110101 11001001 110111 01010011 1101101 1100111 011101 11000010 110001 110100100 1101001 11010001 0101001 11110001 010101 11011101 111001 11010111 011100 11010101 111111 1110100 110101 11010101 1010101 11011100 110001 111110 011111 0100010 010101 11010101 110101 1111010 110001 11110001 110111 1111110 1011111 0100010 11101001 11110100 110001 10111101 110011 010011101 110101 11110010 0011001 1110101 1101001 01010111 0101101 11010111 111111 11000101 111001 0111010 110101 11110101 110011 01001101 110011 11111100 111001 010101101 010101 11010111 110101 11111111 0101101 11011100 111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4827
  • Average number of words per stanza: 896
  • Amount of lines: 160
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, they, them, and, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, the, and, they are repeated.

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