This is an analysis of the poem When Dacey Rode The Mule that begins with:
’TWAS to a small, up-country town,
When we were boys at school, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd ebebafaffbfb gbgBfafacbcb XbhB ihihXjXj fbfBklklafaf fbfB X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,12,12,4,8,12,4,1,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011101 110111 11010001 110101 01010111 100101 11010101 111101 11010111 110101 01010101 111011 01111111 110001 11011101 110111 11010111 010101 11110111 101101 01001101 010101 11011101 110101 11110101 010101 01100111 010101 11011101 110101 110111111 110001 0111010 1101001 11100101 110101 110001001 110101 01000101 110101 011110010 110101 01010101 010111 11010111 110101 0101101 110101 10011101 010101 01110101 110101 11011101 010101 11001101 010100 11110101 111101 11011101 110101 111100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; crown is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word mule at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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