This is an analysis of the poem Mulligan's Mare that begins with:
Oh, Mulligan's bar was the deuce of a place
To drink, and to fight, and to gamble and race; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccXX ddbb eeXX fXXX XXgg hhii ggbb ddXX cXbX iiii eebX aaaa iibb iicc aaXX ffggXeebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11001101001 01101101011 01011001101 01101011001 11100010101011 1011011001001 101101011001 10100100010010 11001101001 01101100101 01011011011 11001011001 11001011001 01001011101 11101001001 1110111100010 11011101101 0101100101010 11001001001 101001110010010 11001001001 0110100101010 11101111111 11001011101 01101011001 11011011001 1010011011011 111011101101 101101001001 11001011011 01011001001 01001111001 101001010001 11111001011 10111011011 111111111010 11001101101 0101110111100 11001001001 1010011100100100 11011111011 111011011001 11001001001 11001101001 1000101010101111 111010011101 11111111011 1101101100100 01011101101 01001111011 11001001001 11011111011 11001001101 101001001001 11001001011 111010101001 11011101001 11111111001 11011001011 11001111001 01101011001 11001001101 11011001001 11101001101 11111011011 11001011011 101011111001 01001101111 11011011011 11001111001 11001001011 11101011001
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 201
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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; and, to, her, of, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, the, and are repeated.
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- summary of Mulligan's Mare;
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