Teddy O'Neale by Eliza Cook: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Teddy O'Neale that begins with:

I've come to the cabin he danced his wild jigs in,
As neat a mud palace as ever was seen; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabcbX dededcXX bfXfdcdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110010110110 11011011011 10100010110110 01011111001 111010110110 11111011011 1100110100010 111011011010 111111110110 11011111001 1111011110010 11011001011 110110010110 01011111001 110110110110 111110110100 1110011011110 101011111101 1111010110110 01111101111 111010010110 11101001111 0111110110110 11111101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 400
  • Average number of words per stanza: 78
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; all, i, my, to are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

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