This is an analysis of the poem Three Songs To The One Burden that begins with:
THE Roaring Tinker if you like,
But Mannion is my name,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdcecD XeXfgdhdD XidiXdgdD XdXcdgcdcD bhdhjcdcD dadadhXhD XkdldXkdkD jlgjkdfdDXljfjbgdgD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,10,9,9,10,19,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01010011 110011 11110101 110011 0101010 010101 11111101 111101 01001010110 11010100 1111001 11010111 111100 11011101 1100111 0101010 1101001 01001010110 11011111 110101 11111101 110111 11111101 110111 11010001 110101 01001010110 1 11010100 110110 01010111 101101 11011111 111111 01110101 110111 01001010110 11111110 110101 11110111 011101 11111111 110011 01000101 110111 01001010110 110011101 101111 1101010 100001 010010111 111111 11010101 111111 01001010110 1 11011101 111101 10011100 100101 1100110 110101 110011101 1100111 01001010110 11011111 010100 10010111 101111 11101101 110110 01001010 010101 01001010110 11110100 111101 1101010 011111 11111101 110111 101001010 110101 01001010110
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 285
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 83
- 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, my, i, their, of, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, he, nor, i, their, come, praise are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word horsemen at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase he connects the lines.
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- summary of Three Songs To The One Burden;
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