This is an analysis of the poem Talbragar 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

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcX dbbX eeaacX XbbX ffggcX aaaX hhiicX ibbX jjddcX bbbX bbkkcX 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 11110111010111 1111010111111 11000101110111 11010100011100 1101 1101 11111101 111100 11110100010101 11010101110001 11110101011101 01111100011101 11010101110111 11011101111100 1101 0101 11011101 111100 11010101110101 11010101110101 10011101010101 11010101110101 111111110111101 11110101110100 0101 1101 01010101 111100 110101100011101 11010100001101 11011101110101 01010101010111 11010101110111 110100011100100 1101 1101 11011101 111100 111100111111101 11111101010010 11110001011101 11110111111111 11010101111101 11010100011100 1111 1101 01000101 100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 230
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; denver, and, s, he are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is 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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