This is an analysis of the poem Paddy Magee that begins with:
What are you doing now, Paddy Magee?
Grafting, or spelling now, Paddy Magee?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXaaaaa aabba ccaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,5,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011001 1011011001 10110 11000 1101101001 011101111 1001111001 111101011 10010001001 1111100101 1001011001 01010 11110 1101001001 110101001 110100101 11011001010 101011011001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines magee is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word magee at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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