Analysis of Larry O’Toole



You've all heard of Larry O'Toole,
Of the beautiful town of Drumgoole;
He had but one eye,
To ogle ye by—
Oh, murther, but that was a jew'l!
A fool
He made of de girls, dis O'Toole.

'Twas he was the boy didn't fail,
That tuck down pataties and mail;
He never would shrink
From any sthrong dthrink,
Was it whisky or Drogheda ale;
I'm bail
This Larry would swallow a pail.

Oh, many a night at the bowl,
With Larry I've sot cheek by jowl;
He's gone to his rest,
Where's there's dthrink of the best,
And so let us give his old sowl
A howl,
For 'twas he made the noggin to rowl.


Scheme AABBXAA CCDDCCC XEFFAEA
Poetic Form
Metre 11111001 10100111 11111 11011 11111011 01 11111101 11101101 111101 11011 11011 1110111 11 11011001 11001101 11011111 11111 111101 01111111 01 11110111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 563
Words 117
Sentences 5
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 7, 7, 7
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 142
Words per stanza (avg) 38
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 14, 2023

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