This is an analysis of the poem Bold Jack Donahoo that begins with:
In Dublin town I was brought up, in that city of great fame
My decent friends and parents, they will tell to you the same.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeefg acfg ccfg bbXb fgfg hhfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 010111110110011 11011101010101 01101011011110101 110100111010101 11110110101 0101010010101 11010101110101 111010100110101 110111110100101 11100111111101 1111101011101101 10010100011101 110111011001001 11000101010111 11110101110001 11110101111101 110110010011111 01010101010111 11001001101110111 01001010011101 1101110110101 101010011111 101000101010101 11011101011001 1000111001011101 1110101110111101 101011111111101 1111011000111101 111100101010101 11011111110101 11110101110101 10100111111111000
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 327
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (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; in, we, we'll, and, they, to, his, he are repeated.
The author used the same word as at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word donahoo at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase resign connects the lines.
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