This is an analysis of the poem For He Was A Jolly Good Fellow that begins with:
THEY CHEERED him from the wharf—it was a glorious day:
His hand went to his scarf—his thoughts were far away.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc aXddcc aaeecc ccbbcc ffggcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1110010101001 011001010101 111100110111 010101010101 1101011100101 110110011101 110101010101 011111110100 110101011111 1101101110011 010101011101 110101010101 110011110101 110101011101 010101110101 111101011101 111101110101 111100111101 110111110111 011101111101 110101110101 011101010111 111101010101 110110111101 0101011101001 110101110101 011101010101 110111010001 110110011101 100101110111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 315
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- 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; his, he, and, as, of, s are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word all at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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