This is an analysis of the poem Ben Duggan that begins with:
Jack Denver died on Talbragar when Christmas Eve began,
And there was sorrow round the place, for Denver was a man; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcX dbbX eeaacX XbbX ffggcX aaaX hhiicX ibbX jjddcX bbbX bXkkcX bbbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,6,4,6,4,6,4,6,4,6,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011100110101 11110101110101 11011101010111 11110101110101 11110101110111 010101001011100 1101 1101 11011101 111100 11110111111101 11010101010101 11110111110111 11010101110101 11000101110111 11010100011100 1101 1101 11111101 111100 11110100010101 11010101110001 11110101011101 01111100011101 11010101110111 11011101111100 1101 0101 11011101 111100 110101011010101 11010101110101 10011101010101 11010101110101 11111111011101 11110101110100 0101 1101 010100101 111100 110101100011101 11010100001101 11011101110101 01010101010111 11010101110111 110100011100100 1101 1101 11011101 111100 111100111110101 11111101010011 111100010101001 11100101011101 11010101111101 11010100011100 1111 1101 01000101 100100
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, and are repeated.
The author used the same word at at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word talbragar at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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