This is an analysis of the poem The Irish Colonel that begins with:
Said the king to the colonel, 'The complaints are eternal, That you Irish give more trouble Than any other corps.'
Said the colonel to the king,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010010101101011101110110101 101000110101111110101100101100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 2
- Average number of symbols per line: 119 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 23
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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