This is an analysis of the poem The Singing-Woman From The Wood's Edge that begins with:
What should I be but a prophet and a liar,
Whose mother was a leprechaun, whose father was a friar?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbaa ccdd eXff ee ffgg eehh Xeii eeaXX jj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,2,4,4,4,5,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010101010 110101001101010 10101011101010 1110101110 11101111010101 1110101111001 111011011101110 1101101110010 10111101110 10101011010 101111010101 1100010001101 111011101 00100110100 111011111001 111011101 101111011 11101010101 01010110101 111101000101 001111101111 0100001111111 1101110010101 0100011010000 10100011101010 111101000111110 11101010101010 111111111110 1111110111010 111110111101010 10111011011101 1010110110111 111111101110 001011100101111 100 01101010101 111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, for, my, he, me, of, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
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