This is an analysis of the poem Paddy's Letter, 1857 that begins with:
I've had all sorts of luck, sometimes bad, sometimes better,
But now I have somebody's luck and my own,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaX Xcdc ceXX bdbd bebX fefe gXgg hiXi hdXX hjhj dkdk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010110110 11111101111 1110011111010 11111001011 01101101111110 111011101101 11101111010 010001011101 110111010101 1110111011 11111101110010 0101101111 1100111001 111111111011 111111101001 001011001001 111011011010 1011101011 110111011010 01011001101 0101111101 111111001001 11111101101 111111101001 1010010111010 110010001001 110110010010 01011111111 11011110110 11010101001 011011111010 11111101101 111010110110 01011011011 1110110011101 111000111010 10100100100100 101011111101 111001011000100 111111111101 10010111010 11110111001 111110111110 11110101001
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, you, as, and, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i'm, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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