This is an analysis of the poem Danny that begins with:
One night a score of Erris men,
A score I'm told and nine, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabX XXbc bXde eebX fcbc aebe acfc gded bgXg cXae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 010111 11110101 011101 101010100 011100 11011101 110111 11110111 010100 11010001 110101 11111001 0101010 1010101 1101010 01011101 011101 11110111 110111 10010101 110101 110011101 010111 11010101 110111 11010111 011101 11011101 110101 11010101 110111 11011011 111001 11011101 111101 11110101 0110100 11011101 1111010
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 41
- 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; of, and, seven, some are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words at, and, some are repeated.
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- summary of Danny;
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- idea of the verse;
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