This is an analysis of the poem A Hungry Day that begins with:

I MIND him well, he was a quare ould chap,
Come like meself from swate ould Erin's sod;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xaba Xaca abXb aada eccc XbdX efeX XXgX eecX dgeg cdcd aaha dihi eXbX cdaX Xded edad aaaX gXXX fcXX Xdhd Xdjd dXbX ckckXfjjj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111110111 1110011101 11011010100 0111110101 1111010110 1100010101 101111101 1101010111 0110110111 1101010101 1100011101 0101111101 01101111000101 1001010101 1101110101 1010011101 1101010111 1111011001 1110010101 10111100110101 1101110101 11011110101 1111111111 1111110101 1111111101 0101011111 1011011101 1101000100 1111100101 1101110101 1101110101 1101011111 1111010111 0101111111 1111110101 1111010001 1101111101 1111011111 1111010101 1111010101 1111010101 0111010101 1111010101 0101010101 1111010111 1101001011 11001101101 1101110101 110010100101 1111011111 0111011101 1101111001 0111101101 11011101001 1101010100 0111010101 1101010111 1111011111 1101111111 0111011001 11010110101 110100111 11010010101 11010110101 1101011111 1101010111 11001100101 0101101001 1101010101 1101110101 01001011101 1101010101 1011110101 110111001 1100010111 0011010111 1001110111 1111100101 1111010001 11110011010 1111100101 1101111111 1111111101 1111010101 1111010101 1101010111 1011110101 0011010111 1011110101 1011011111 1000110111 010011101110 1100110101 11000101001 1101011101 01001010101 1111110101 1011011111 1101111101 1111110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 25
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 100
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; in, ', he, says, an', as, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words an', no are repeated.

    The author used the same word an' at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is 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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