This is an analysis of the poem Gilhooley's Estate that begins with:
Oh, Mr Gilhooley he turned up his toes,
As most of you know, soon or late; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcX dbdb dXdX abaX ebeX bbbX cbcX fbfX Xbfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010011101 11011111 11101011011 1111010001 10001101011 11001001 1100111001001 1101001000 11101001001 01001011 10101101101 01010001 1101001100111 11011001 11110011111 0111001000 11110001001 11001101 101110101011 00101001000 101001001101 101001101 11001111001 10101001000 1010011101101 100101011 11100001101 0101001000 101001001101 00001111 01101101111 10111001000 1101001100101 11001011 0101100100011 10101001000 001001001001 01011011 0100100101 01010001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, by are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word estate at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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