This is an analysis of the poem Jolly Jack that begins with:
When fierce political debate
Throughout the isle was storming,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd aeaeefef ghXheXeX ieiXjijX dXdahXhf dkdklili gbghmkmX niniefef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010001 0101110 11010111 1100010 010100101 1101010 101110101 0100010 11111111 0101101 01011101 111111 01010101 010101 11111011 011101 01010100 1101010 11010110 1101110 11010101 0100010 11010101 0101110 11010101 1101110 11011101 1111010 11110111 0101110 11010101 1101110 11010111 1111011 11011101 1101010 01010111 010100 01011101 010101 11111111 1101010 11111100 110110 11011101 0101010 11011100 0110110 10101111 1111010 11110101 11110010 10110111 1100110 11010101 1111100 11111100 1101010 10010100 0100010 110111001 110001 110100011 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 254
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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, to, his, he, in, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, his are repeated.
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