This is an analysis of the poem Jack Mcguire that begins with:
They would have lynched me
Had I not been secretly hurried away...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbcaaaXbXXcdXdabX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111 11101001001 00110100 1111101001 100110101 110010101 110101111 111111011 011010101 1001111 111110110 11010111001 110111001 10110101 1101001 110100111 111011 1010111111 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 668
- Average number of words per stanza: 127
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; me, rhodes, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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