This is an analysis of the poem Mr. Barney Maguire's Account Of The Coronation that begins with:

Och! the Coronation! what celebration
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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbXbXb deXefaga XfXfXhch diXidbXb fhfhcXdX dbjbfhXX caXabkXk lXgXdaXX dXcakmgm XmXXdfdf jlhlXfXf jXjajXcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101011010 1101010001 1011001010 1010101010001 1111011000 1001011101 101110101100 1101010101 1101011110 01010110101 010110110110 1111011101 1101011010 01001011101 01110110010 00111010101 101100101010 1001010101 10001010011000 0101011101 111110011000 1101000101 01001011110 010101111 110010001110 0111010011 11010101100 1111101101 0110011010 0101000101 111110010110 0101001001 10101011010 0111001101 101001010100 110000010111 110100101010 1001001110 111011011010 10111011111 11101001010 1111001101 110101010010 0101001001 001100011110 11000010101 11001011100 10101010101 101101011010 001010010101 11011101010 0111010101 111010101011 0111010101 11111110100 001110101101 101110101011 1010010111 10111011110 1101010111 10100100100010 1111010011 1010110110010 1011110101 101010001010 101110001001 111001010010 1001011101 0111110011 1101010101 10101010010 1001011001 11110101010 0111001101 1101001100 10111111111 101010101010 110101101 1111101110010 0101001101 1011010101110 11011101001 01011111011 1111011001 11111001010 0110011101 1011100111101 0111010101 101010101010 101101001101 10111100010 1001011111 1111011010 0010100111 1110011010 1010110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 375
  • Average number of words per stanza: 65
  • Amount of lines: 96
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • 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; and, her, in, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Mr. Barney Maguire's Account Of The Coronation;
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  • history of its creation;
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