This is an analysis of the poem In The Years Of Sarsfield that begins with:
I wish I were over the Curlew Mountains,
Marching to Sligo by valley and fen;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XababbXXXcaXaa XXXdXdXebeaafa XfXfcgdgXcXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101001010 1001011011 11101000010 1001101101 11111011010 10011010001 111101110110 1111010110 11101010010 1001111000 01101101010 100100110 11110001010 0011101001 11111101110 100111001 111011010100 1001111001 111111110010 0010101011 11111010011 1001110001 100101101101 1001011001 111110010010 0011001011 10111110111 0001111011 111110010010 1011101001 10110110100 100101101 1111100110101 1111011001 10011010111 1000111011 11110111010 1101011101 10110101110 1001010001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 595
- Average number of words per stanza: 116
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, that, my, of are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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