This is an analysis of the poem Had I A Golden Pound (After The Irish) that begins with:

Had I a golden pound to spend,
My love should mend and sew no more....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbXb Xcdc XadA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 11010101 11111111 111100101 100110101 11010101 010111001 01010101 11010111 10010111 01010111 010011010 11010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; and is repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Had I A Golden Pound (After The Irish);
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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