This is an analysis of the poem When Old Jack Died that begins with:

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When old Jack died, we staid from school (they said,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bccbbccbdXbdab X beebbeebXcbXcb X abbaabbaffbffb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,1,14,1,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 1111110111 1111011111 0111010101 1111010101 1111110101 1111011001 1110011110 0111111101 1101110111 0001011011 1001111111 1111001011 11011111011 101011111 1 1111010101 1100101111 1111010101 0101111101 0111010111 0101011101 11010101111 1011111111 0110111101 0111111101 1111111101 1111111111 0101111101 1100111111 1 1111010111 1101010101 0101011101 10100110111 0101011101 0111011101 1101011111 0111010011 1111010101 1100110111 1111101101 1101111101 11001110101 11111101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 315
  • Average number of words per stanza: 61
  • Amount of lines: 45
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, we, him, that are repeated.

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