This is an analysis of the poem Jack Roy that begins with:
Kept up by relays of generations young
Never dies at halyards the blithe chorus sung;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcXcXdXd XefcXeccgXgffahbX bddbiijjej ahXhffXafaXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,17,10,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111010101 10111001101 10111110 1101 110101110 101 1101011011 1 11010110010 101 1110110110 1 010111101001 1 010101010100 11 100010101011 1110001110001 1101110101 101010101010 11 010110001011 100010001101 010001010100 11 1101011000 1 1101010010010 1 110111010001 11011111010 1 010011010101 00101011010 1110 101011010100 111 10100011010 10100 110001111000 10 011100110101 101010010001 10101100011 010 1101010110 10 10011001101 010011001111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 309
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, in are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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