This is an analysis of the poem Conall's Daughter that begins with:
Wind from the eastward whose breath goes seaward surely
Over the cold grey rollers that hold me apart,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbXcXC XdbdXcXC adadXcXC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101111010 100111011101 1100110101011 01111001011 10010100110010 0011100111010 10011110111000 10110010 0101010010011 10110010111 1011011001110011 11101111101 110111101100100 1110111101010 10011110111000 10110010 100100111010 1101110100111 1101111010010 110110111101 1001111101110 10010101010 10011110111000 10110010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 417
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (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; to, and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word water at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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