This is an analysis of the poem Patrick Sheehan that begins with:
My name is Patrick Sheehan,
My years are thirty-four;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXcdeX fbdbXXcX gbcbedfX ahahfdiX XXXXXdXX eegehdXX ieXXfdaX XeeeedXX ajcjhdaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 101101 101001101 110100 1101010 111101 110010111 0010100 11011101 111101 010101101 010101 1111010 110110 01010101 0010100 11110101 110111 1110011 1011101 01111111 110111 11011111 0010100 01011111 010101 1101110 110101 1101111 110101 11101010 1010100 111010100 110101 11111101 01111 0111010 011101 11011000 110100 1101110 111101 1110111 010111 11111111 110101 111100101 0010100 111010 100101 011100111 010101 1101010 1110101 11110101 111100 01010100 110101 111101101 110111 11111010 111101 0101110 0010100 11011100 110111 10110101 110101 10101110 010001 0101110 0010100
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 228
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, and, i are repeated.
The author used the same word my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word aherlow at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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