This is an analysis of the poem Jimmy Dooley's Army that begins with:
There's a dashin' sort of boy
Which they call his Party's Joy, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabbcbbcddc eFFAGGC hhXbbeaaXaacXeFFAGGC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,7,20,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 1110101 101111111011 1110101 0010101 111010101010 1011111 1010111 11110101010 1010111 1010101 111010101010 10 11111 110111 01001101011 1111101 0010101 01010101010 1110001 1110001 10110101000 1111111 10110001 010101011100 1011111 1100111 111111101110 1110111 1110101 11111101110 10 11111 110111 01001101011 1111101 0010101 01010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 324
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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