This is an analysis of the poem Danny O'Dare that begins with:
Danny O'Dare, the dancin' bear,
Ran away from the County Fair,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaXXXXbbXXXXcXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100101 10100101 1110111 11111101 11010110110 1001101010 100101001 11010001010 100110101 100110101 100110100 10010101 1001101100 1001101110 11110111 1011100 11011001001 101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 642
- Average number of words per stanza: 127
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ran, he are repeated.
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