This is an analysis of the poem The Kerrigan Boys that begins with:
By jove it’s hot on the track today, my flannel is soaked with sweat.
I think I’ll sit in the shade a bit and wait for the sun to set....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccaa aabb ddee ffgg cchh bbcc ffcc ccii jjaa ccjj aabb hhXj kkaa eecc llii XgkkXccaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101101011100101 1111001011110101 11001010110100101 11110101111100111 01011010011101111 0010001111111001 0101010110101111 10111011011110111 1001111011100111 11111111111110111 11010010111111001 11101001101010111 11101001111110111 10101101101101 1101101111111101 111101011101001 11001001111100101 111010111110101 11101110111110111 01101011011101111 0111001111110101 111111101111110101 0101001001110101 10111101011100101 1101101111111101 0111111101110101 11010111111101111 11111001011011011 10101001011100101 101010111110100111 000101101100100111 10101011111111001 111101111011101 101001101010100101 110110010010100101 111101111011100101 1111001011100101 01010011110110101 101110110110100101 10101001011110111 111011010110100111 1111001111110111 11111110101100101 10111001010111011 11101001011111101 11111001011110101 11010111011111111 1101001011010101 111110110101111001 10101011111101111 11101011011100101 1010011011101101 1111010011100111 1101011011101111 1110111110111111 10111011011110111 11111011110101001 11111111111110111 1101101011110111 101110110110100101 101001110101101 1100001011110101 111111111111111101 11101111111101110 111001011100110 1001001011100111 11110011011011111 1111101011100101 110100100110100101 11111001111111101 1111111010111001 10111011011110111
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 281
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 70 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 15
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, he, of, we, man, old, for, on, our, in, his, road are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, we, our are repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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