This is an analysis of the poem The Road To Cabinteely that begins with:
Oh, the lonely road, the road to Cabinteely!
'Tis there I see a little ghost, and gaily singeth she....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaaXcXcc XddddXebee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010101000 11110101110101 11010101111110 1111010110101 110101 11010100101010 0101111111101 11010101101010 1111110110111 110111 01111101101110 0101010111101 01011000111010 0101010110101 110101 101010101000 11010101010111 11110101111010 11110101111111 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 496
- Average number of words per stanza: 93
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; she, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, her are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me, kind, denies, break are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase she connects the lines.
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