This is an analysis of the poem Belts that begins with:

There was a row in Silver Street that's near to Dublin Quay,
Between an Irish regiment an' English cavalree;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbbXXCCB dXeeX fXggX hhXXX ffiiX iXggX ddaaXXCCB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,5,5,5,5,5,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11010101110101 0111010011010 01011001010111 01111100011001 1011011111110 1011011111110 11011 101111 01001001 11010101010011 111100100111010100 11010101110011 01010101010101 10110 11010101111001 11011111011100 10010101110001 01010100111101 10110 11010101110101 01001101010101 111110001101001 1110110111110010 10110 11010101011111 11110111111111 11110111110111 11111100110101 10110 11010101111101 111100001101011100 110111011101111 011111010101011 10110 11010101000101 11011101110001 1101001100111 11010101101101 1011011111110 1011011111110 11011 101111 01001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 335
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 43
  • Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; belts, an', for are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you, him are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word belts at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Belts;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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