This is an analysis of the poem Tipperary Days that begins with:

Oh, weren't they the fine boys! You never saw the beat of them,
Singing all together with their throats bronze-bare;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababacac DeDeDbDb afafghgh XXXXXXXX agagaiai DbDbDXDX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110101111010100 10101001111 1011111000100 10101010111 10111011000100 10101110101 1000111011011000 10111111001 001101010 001101 001101010 1010111 011010 11101 0011101010 11111 100110011101110 101011011111 10101011010110 10111000111 10011011110101 10101001111 100011001001101 11101001111 10110111000 1110111 1110111000 1111110 011000 101101 1110111000 1111100 010110000010010100 11011101010011 1111110101010100 11110101010111 11011101111100 1010101011111 11111101011100 110101010111 001101010 111000101 001101010 1011111 011010 11101101 0011101010 11111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 364
  • Average number of words per stanza: 63
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, miles, it's, long, way, to, them, of, c'est, un, chemin are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it's, c'est, and are repeated.

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