Analysis of My Troubles

John Boyle O'Reilly 1844 (Dowth) – 1890 (Boston)



I WROTE down my troubles every day;
And after a few short years,
When I turned to the heart-aches passed away,
I read them with smiles, not tears.


Scheme ABAC
Poetic Form
Metre 1111101001 0100111 1111011101 1111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 154
Words 30
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 113
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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John Boyle O'Reilly

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