This is an analysis of the poem The Old Keg Of Rum that begins with:
My name is old Jack Palmer,
I'm a man of olden days,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdcAE EAE fbab beGE EGE afXfaeXE EXE bcXc beCE ECE bbhbXeIE EIE fdbd beHE EHE chXhceAeXEAe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,3,4,4,3,8,3,4,4,3,8,3,4,4,3,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1101110 0010101 11110101 010101 01010101 110111 11111010 101101 10110101101 11111010 101101 11111011 111111 11110100 110101 110010111 110101 110101010 1101 10110101101 110101010 1101 11101110 1111101 11110101 111101 1111010 1111111 11101010 001101 10110101101 11101010 001101 01000101 111111 01110101 110011 110000101 1100011 0101010 001101 10110101101 0101010 001101 11111101 110001 1010101 011101 110011 0010101 1101110 1101101 10110101101 1101110 1101101 11011101 111101 11001011 101101 11111101 0110111 10101010 0011101 10110101101 10101010 0011101 11111111 111101 11110111 111101 11011111 0010001 0101110 101101 10110101101 0101110 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 77
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, old, keg, rum, and, we'd, from, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rum is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word rum at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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