This is an analysis of the poem The Ballad Of Persse O'Reilly that begins with:
Have you heard of one Humpty Dumpty
How he fell with a roll and a rumble... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbbb bXXccd eeXfff ghXiii gdX X eijfkkl eXmakkk mhdkkk XXXlmmX jj hiXnnX llXnnX gXeXii jgXjjj X hXXiiiXiebj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,3,1,7,7,6,7,2,6,6,6,6,1,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011010 1110011010 1111110010 101001011 10001011 11011 1111110010 111011010110 10111011100010 00101011 10001011 1111 11100001110101 11010100101010100 111011011101 1001101001 10101001 10001 10111101100 1111110010 1010100100 11100011 100100001 1001 01011101010111 11 10101011 100100 1111111010101 11010 101000101010010 1101110001101111 1101101 10001001 110010 11110001100100 11111010111100 11111010010100100 100 00101101 1010101 11111 11110110110 0100110010 11110111001 10111111 1010111 10101 10110100011 101101110000 1011010010100 111001000100 1111110010001 1001101011 1010 10101011011001 0101 011011101010 10100010101010010 1110110100 110101 10101011 010010100 1101101011000100 1011101111100 1010100101 01100001 10101011 101011 11101100100 1100100000 11101101000100 111010100 10001001 1110 111010100110 11110100100 11110101100 11010101 10110101 0101011 1001000100010000 111011111110 1011011010000 1110110100 010010101 10001111 11101 1110111010 0101010 1111101011 11100101
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 204
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 94
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; jail, of, for, butter, horns, his, it, and are repeated.
The author used the same word he 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 wall, mountjoy, reform, horns, door, war, cod, rann, green, danes are repeated).
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