This is an analysis of the poem The Rattling Boy From Dublin that begins with:

I'm a rattling boy from Dublin town,
I courted a girl called Biddy Brown,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXX b XXXX cccc b ddXd b bbbb b bbaa b eaea b ffaa b Xaaa b XXaa bXaaee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,4,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0010010101 110011101 01101111 1111111001 10 1101101000 110110100 1101101000 110110100 1111000101 111011111 110110111 100100100101 10 111000101 101110101 111101000 11011101 10 110011011 1011111011 1101111101 111110101 10 110010011 1110011101 10111011001 01101001111 10 11001101 101011101 101110101 11101011 10 1011010011101 11110101 101000011101 10010010101 10 1001010011101 1110101001 111100111 1110111001101 10 100101100101 1111110 110110101 0101000101 10 111110101 010100101 01110101 11100101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 86
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 53
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; fal, de, whack, da, i, to, you are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word whack is repeated.

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