This is an analysis of the poem The Ballad Of Father O'Hart that begins with:
GOOD Father John O'Hart
In penal days rode out... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XababcbcdebeXfefbeXegcXcefXfXXXXbgXXXdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010110 010111 00101111 101111 011111 100101 1110110010 11100111 110111 110111 11111001 11111001 11110010 10101101 0011011010 001001001 011110110 111111 111001111 11101001 1011001 1101011 110110110 1110101 1100101 110111 10100100 1111101 1111010 010100 101110 110011 011111 1101011 1000100 1001000 1001000 111111 0101100 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1237
- Average number of words per stanza: 237
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, keening are repeated.
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