This is an analysis of the poem Kelly Of The Legion that begins with:
Now Kelly was no fighter;
He loved his pipe and glass;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXbcbC dddX dededcdC fffX ghghfcfc iiic fafaXciX fffX bjbjfXfX kXkc XdfdfcfX kkkc lelemcmcXfffc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,8,4,8,4,8,4,8,4,8,4,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110 110111 1101010 110100 1101010 111101 10111010 010101 1100010 01001110 0101010 1101010 1101010 111111 1110010 110101 10011010 1100011 10100010 010101 10101010 0101110 1111010 0101010 0111010 010101 1100110 010101 1101110 110101 1101010 010101 0111110 1101010 1111010 111101 1101010 110101 0111010 010001 1101011 110111 101110110 11010010 1111010 1101010 1101010 11010010 1111110 110111 1111110 010111 1111010 011110 1101010 11010010 1101110 01011100 0100110 110101 110110 100111 0101010 010001 0101010 011001 0101010 11010010 1001110 1101010 1111110 011101 1101010 110101 1101010 111101 0101011 110101 1111011 111101 1011010 0101110 1101010 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, and, calling, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, they, with, his are repeated.
The author used the same word with at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word way at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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