This is an analysis of the poem Only A Sod that begins with:
It's only a sod, but ’twill break me ould heart
Nigh hardened wid toilin’ and carin’,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaab bcbbc dXddb dXddX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001111111 110110110 11011001011 01001101011 01010010 01001101011 0110111110 11101011001 11111011001 1010110110 01001111011 1010010110 101111100101 1110110101 1011110110 01001111001 1111110110 100011111011 11011001011 1010010110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, it, me are repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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