This is an analysis of the poem Dirty Irving that begins with:
He once could care less who felt what.
And he strutted with such arrogance....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacbc defge cfhiaacXf ijagg XhekXX dbdXkX ldklddjb XXdl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,9,5,6,6,8,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 111001100 1110011101 1101111110 010010 0011010 110100010 00110111 1111000011 110100 10111 101010100 110111 101011 0110001 1001 101101 1011100 101101 01011 1010101 11101 1101 110101 10101001 1101001010 1001000111 1010110111 1100010 010111001 01011101001 1111010010001001 1010101100100 1001111 10111110 110110010 101 11010111 10101101 01010101001 010011 10101 10101 1010001 1010010111 1001 11 101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
The author used the same words he, dirty, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Dirty Irving;
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