This is an analysis of the poem When I Was A Tall Lad that begins with:
WHEN I was a tall lad with money in my hand,
I'd pots and pans a plenty, and friends about the land.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd bXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011010011 1111010110101 1101011110101 1010110101101 11111101011 11111011111 101011111010101 10101101110101 111010110101 11010101010100 11010101110101 0010110101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i'd, and are repeated.
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