This is an analysis of the poem Smith-With-A-Hi that begins with:
Signing on in the
Emerald Isle...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xa abbccdDd eXffeXXXdDd bbbbgbXgXXhhdDd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,8,11,15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100 1001 11010101 111101111 110111101 11101111001 111101111 11111001 11 1111001 10111001110 11100011000 101011001010 1111111010 11111001110 0101001000 11111111000 11111101110 1111001 11 1111001 0011111111 001101011001 00111101111 011100111 11111111101 11 1 1001 1 10 1111011011 111100111 1111001 11 1111001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 282
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, de, with, s, as, hi are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines with is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word hi at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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